8 BIRDS COLLECTED IN PERAK. 
Identical with a specimen collected in Karennee by Cap- 
tain WARDLAW RAMSAy. It has also occurred on Mooleyit. 
FAM.—TIMELIID/E. 
Brachypteryx nipalensis (Hodgs.). 
Brachypteryx nipalensis, Hume and Davison, ¢. ¢., p. 236; 
Oatesi ac... 1G: 
“No. 89. g ad. Gunong Batu Puteh (4,300 feet). 
‘“Trides brown ; bill black ; feet and legs ash-colour. Lives 
on the ground in the forest.” 
An adult male, rather darker than the generality of Hima- 
layan and Tenasserim specimens, though some of the latter 
equal it in intensity of colouring. 
Phyllergates cucullatus (Temm.). 
Phyllergates cucullatus, Sharpe, P. Z. S., 1887, p. 440. 
“No. 112. 9 ad. Gunong Batu Puteh (3)4eoecn 
“Trides dark brown; bill black above, yellowish beneath; 
legs and feet pale-brown. Also met with on Gunong Ulu 
Batang Padang at about the same altitude.” 
Gampsorhynchus saturotior, Sp. n. 
“No. tor. ? ad. Gunong Batu Puteh (3\400teenr 
“Trides bright yellow ; legs and feet bluish ash with tintings 
of flesh-colour in places; claws flesh-colour; soles of feet dull 
yellow ; bill pale flesh-colour, dusky on the ridge below the 
nostrils. The fold of skin in which the rictal bristles are 
inserted is very prominent, and evidently when alive the bird 
can move the bristles as a whole backwards and forwards with 
great freedom. 
“Length 10% inches, expanse’ 12 inches, /heystomeackh 
contained one large hairy caterpillar and the partly digested 
remains of various insects, and the egg of one of the Phas- 
mide. 
‘This bird gave me a great deal of trouble, for every night 
and early each morning a small party of them used to pass 
the camp, sometimes on one side and sometimes on the other. 
They made a loud shrill cry something like the cry of the 
