G MALAYAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



Perak and Singapore, breeding in both places. 



In my notes I wrote as follows : — 



11 Singapore, 19th July, 1879. To-day I shot one of the black - 

 and-white-plurnaged birds, L. terat, which I so frequently saw on 

 the open ground bordering the river near Kuala Kaugsa. 



" Singapore, 1st Sept., 1879. The young of the pied Lalage terat 

 are now about our garden in front of the Mess, and make a most 

 strange plaintive noise, like a child crying ; in appearance they 

 resemble the parent birds, but are not nearly so distinctly marked, 

 and are considerably mottled." 



Tephrodornis gularis (Eaffl.). 



I got a specimen of this Wood-Shrike from a Portuguese collect- 

 or at Malacca. 



GrRATTCALUS SUMATRENSIS (Miill.). 



I saw some specimens of this bird obtained in Johor ; personally 

 I only once met with it in the jungle. 



During August, 1877, I was one of the party which accompanied 

 II. H. The Maharaja of Johor up the Moar river to a meeting of 

 the Chiefs at Segamat. On the 8th of August, after travelling 

 up-stream all through the day, we stopped about sunset at Bukit 

 Kopong, a village on the left bank, for a bath and some dinner, 

 before which I wandered into the jungle for an hour with my gun, 

 and got several birds then new to me, among others a grey Crow- 

 like bird, G. sumatrensis, which was sitting on a tree close to some 

 Malays' huts. 



Pericrocotus flammifer (Hume.). 



I have a pair of these beautiful Minivets, shot on 19th August, 

 1879, on G-unong Pulai, Johor, by Mr. Davisox's collector. 



DlSSEMURUS PLATTTRUS (Vieill.). 



This Drongo Shrike, or King Crow, as it is commonly called, is 

 plentiful in the peninsula; and I also got several on the islands of 

 Singapore, Batam, and Ubin ; it is found in considerable numbers 

 on Penang hill. 



In the undisturbed tracts of jungle towards the north of Perak, 

 I frequently came across this racket-tailed Drongo ; but it was some 

 time before I managed to get a perfect specimen, as. though I shot 

 seven or eight, in every case in falling through the trees the two 



