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CONCLUSIONS. 
ony oy deductions to be drawn from the above detailed experi 
(a) that the virus arrived here in good ehm but 
(b) ur the field rats of Perak are not ерде 1 to its action 
It would appear from a paragraph in the * Pinang Gazette,” of 
20th September, that the same virus has been tried recently on field 
rats at "osea in Java, but failed there also, owing to the rats 
being imm 
Tarpine, 10th October, 1904. L. WRAY. 
А SYNOPSIS OF THE BIRDS AT PRESENT KNOWN TO 
INHABIT THE MALAY PENINSULA SOUTH OF THE 
ISTHMUS OF KRA. 
Bx HERBERT C. ROBINSON, w.&.0.U., © 
CuRATOR, SELANGOR STATE Museum. 
ыры Dp work existing, which deals specially with the birds of 
he Malay Peninsula and its dependencies, it is intended, in this 
and йөри numbers of the “Journal of the Federated Malay 
States Museums," to give a brief account of every species at present 
known a occur within the limits indicated above. As, however, a full 
description of every variety would occupy a greater amount of space 
than is Gahe, it has been thought sufficient to give a “key” to each 
main group, which it is hoped will enable anyone interested in the 
subject to identify all birds that he is at all likely to come across, while 
the list of books and pamphlets given below, most of which are available 
or reference in the library of the Selangor Museum, will enable him 
to pursue the subject further, should he so desire, 
The lists of Peninsular localities are mainly taken from the collections 
of the British Museum, the Perak, Selangor and Singapore Museums 
and from those of the Hon. W. Rothschild at Tring. East coast 
localities, north of Pahang, are derived from the collections of the 
* Skeat Expedition," now preserved at Cambridge, and from that made 
by Mr. Annandale and myself, the bulk of which is now in the British 
Museum. 
It should be pointed out, however, that there are large trac 
regarding which our knowledge is almost a blank, Sis as the States. ot 
Trengganu and Nakawn on the east coast and those north of Kedah 
on the west, as well as large portions of Kelantan and Pahang. In- 
formation and collections from any of these localities will be most 
acceptable. 
LIST OF AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. 
l. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, vols. 1.-XXVH., 
London, 1874-1898. 
Contains the descriptions of, and diagnostic keys to, all 
species known to science at the dates of c of the 
respective volumes. 
