Mek, B. SHARPE ON BIRDS COLLECTED 
iN BRERA 
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7 fe ROM the collections previously sent by Mr. WRAY 
re ‘ MCG ee On OOOn) py, SSO; ANG, LOOT, p. 430 )y it 
(REE , Wasi SO easy to prophecy that his future explorations 
would bring to light the existence of more Hima- 
=i layan genera in the high mountains of the Malay 
Peninsula, that I can take little credit for my prog- 
nostications; but the foreshadowing of Mr. WRAy’s accom- 
plishments does not impair the credit of that explorer’s suc- 
cess in his last expedition into the mountain ranges of the 
interior of the Peninsula. : 
He states that the mountains, on which he has lived for six 
months, “contain really very few more birds than the Larut 
range, though they are so much more extensive,’ and he 
collected up to an altitude of 7,000 feet. 
By the present collection several interesting forms have 
been revealed, representatives of allied species in Tenasserim, 
and the ranges of several birds are extended southwards. 
The genera hitherto unrecorded from the mountains of Ma- 
lacca are Anthipes, Brachypteryx, Gamsorhynchus, and 
Cutia—all Himalayan in Tenasserim forms, of which, so far 
as we know, only Srachypteryx has occurred in Sumatra. 
The Avifauna of the latter island is further linked to that of 
the mountain ranges of the Malay Peninsula by the discovery 
of a black Babbling Thrush representing the Melanocichla 
bicolor of Sumatra. 
The unexampled success which has attended Mr. WRAy’S 
efforts so far will, we hope, encourage him to still further 
investigations of the interesting region in which he is domi- 
ciled. 
The references in the present paper are chiefly to Mr. 
OATES’ “Handbook of the Birds of British Burma,” which 
