2 : BIRDS COLLECTED IN PERAK. 
includes an a]lusion to the paper on the birds of Tenasserim 
by Messrs. HUME & DAVISON. Ihave also referred to Count 
SALVADORI’S essay on Dr. BECCARI’S collections from high 
Sumatra (Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv, p. 169), whenever 
there occurs any affinity in the Avifauna of that island with 
the collection under discussion. 
Mr. WRaAy’Ss original remarks, by far the most important 
part of the present paper, are placed in inverted commas. 
FAM.—FALCONIDA. 
Neopus malayensis (Temm.). 
Neopus malayensis, Sharpe, P. Z. 5., 1387, p: 433, samemes 
Sues [iy WSIOh Da Ave 
“No. 18. 2 ad. Mountains of Perak (Gunong Batu Puteh). 
“Trides brown; feet yellow; cere yellow ; expanse 5 feet 
Town.) lenothiz tect Smine 
“The stomach contained the remains of a rat, a bird’s egg, 
and a snake’s egg. The plumage of this specimen was far 
darker than that of the two I obtained last year on the Larut 
alice: 
FAM.—CORVID-. 
Platylophus ardeciacus (Blyth). 
Platylophus ardesiacus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., in, 
p. 137;, Hume & Davison, Str. F., 1878, p. 480 s@amesmien 
‘Brit. Burm., 1, p: 40; Hume, Sir i.) 16709 psoo 
“No. 117. @ ad. Batang Padang (mountains of Perak). 
‘“Trides dark brown; bill black; feet and les black 
frequents the undergrowth of the forest.” 
FAamM.—CAMPOPHAGIDE. 
Pericrocotus wrayr, Sp. 1. (Plate xv). | 7 
“No. 53. 2. igneus, 69 ad. Batang Padang mountains, 
Pera 
I can hardly believe that this is the species I identified and 
returned to Mr. WRAY as Pericrocotus tgneus (Py 2a 
1887, p. 435. If such be- the case, | was greatly amiemmem 
for the pair of birds now sent are decidedly distinct from 
that species. P. wrayz has the quill-lining red, instead 
