ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES 



MADE IN THE 



STRAITS SETTLEMENTS 



AND IN THE 



WESTERN STATES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



( First published iu " The Ibis." ) 

 (Continued from Journal No. 9, p. 140.) 



Arachnothera longirostra (Lath.). The Small Spider-hunter. 



My only specimen was shot in the neighbourhood of Malacca. 



This bird is very like, if not identical with, Blyth's A. pusilla. 



Arachnothera chrysogenys (Temm.). 



My specimens are from Malacca and Johor. 



Arachnothera modesta (Eyt.). The Large Spider-hunter. 



Probably fairly plentiful, as I bought several skins from the 

 Malacca collectors. 



Once, during May, I myself shot one near Enggar, a small village 

 on the left bank of the Perak river, and distant about 140 miles 

 from its mouth. I was returning to Kuala Kangsa, after a few 

 days' trip up-stream, and had passed a most uncomfortable night, 

 lying in the bottom of a very narrow and extremely leaky canoe, 

 drawn up on a sand bank in mid-stream ; and, to quote from my 

 note-book, " when I awoke, a thick white mist huug over the river, 

 saturating everything, like rain ; but as day broke this gradually 

 cleared off ; so, wading ashore, I struck into the jungle along one 



