SR PAHOLOGICAL NOTES 
MADE IN THE 
weeekis SETTLEMENTS 
AND IN THE 
WESTERN STATES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA 
BY 
Captn. H. R. KELHAM, 74tH Hichianpers. | 
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( First published in the Ibis. ) 
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Boal % OMPARATIVELY little having been written concerning the 
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me i Ornithology of the Malay Peninsula, the following 
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“a5 those ornithologists fated to pass most of their life in 
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? the far East. That something about Malay birds, how- 
ever meagre it may be, is much wanted, I well know from personal 
experience, having still fresh in my memory the up-hill work of 
my first few months in the country. These I spent among the 
jungles of the peninsula, daily shooting heaps of specimens, yet 
without the means of satisfactorily determining their identity, or 
finding out any thing about them beyond what I myself observed, 
only knowing this bird to be a Pitta, that to belong to the Picide 
or Cuculide, but in most cases being quite in the dark as to their 
particular species, though afterwards ‘‘ JErpon’s Birds of India,” 
a few volumes of “ Stray Feathers,” and some of the monographs, 
notably Mr. SuHanrpe’s beautiful work on the Kingfishers, gave me 
much assistance. So, with the view of helping any one, yery likely 
