BIRDS COLLECTED IN PERAK, fe) 
Krekah monkey, and flew quickly from tree to tree. Day 
after day we went out into the jungle to watch for them, but 
as there was no certainty which side of the camp they would 
take, and they always passed when it was so dark in the 
forest that neither they nor the sight of the gun could be dis- 
tinguished, we were never successful, until nearly the last day 
of our stay at that camp, in shooting one. ‘The strange thing 
was that we never saw these birds in the daytime. They 
passed up the hill to roost at night-fall and down again at 
dawn. Their note is so loud and distinctive, and they are so 
noisy, that they could not easily be overlooked or mistaken 
for any other bird. — 
“They are evidently rare, as only this one small party 
was seen.” 
This new species is very closely allied to G. torguatus 
(Hume) from Tenasserim, but is altogether of much darker 
colour, the upper surface being. more rufous-brown. It is 
evidently a southern race of the Tenasserim form. 
Stbia simillima, Salvad. 
Ola siilimea, Sharpe, P. Z, 5.1880, p. 352. 
fleterophasia simillima, Salvad., ¢. c., p. 232. 
“No. 13. ¢ ad. Batang Padang mountains, Perak.” 
Pomatorhinus borneensis, (Cab.). 
Pomatorhinus borneensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., vii, 
Pain biome, ote, Po 1870, p. Ov. 
“No. 100. 6 ad. Gunong Batu Puteh (3,400 feet). 
“Trides very light brown ; bill white, with black on the top 
of the ridge, reaching about halfway to the point; legs and 
feet bluish ash; soles of feet yellowish brown. 
Only one pair of these birds were seen; they were in 
company with a number of other birds.”’ 
Melanocichla peninsularts, Sp. n. 
“No. 84. 6 ad. Gunong Batu Puteh (3,400 feet). 
“‘Trides bluish grey ; bare skin round eye and also the skin 
of the head and neck under the feathers dark purplish blue ; 
bill bright reddish orange; legs grey, edges of the scales 
