BIRDS OF THE LARUT HILLS. 9 
Birds collected and observed on the Larut Hills, 
Perak, in March and April 1898. 
It was with the greatest pleasure that I found myself able 
to devote the months of February and March this year (1898) 
to forming a collection of birds on the Larut Hills in Perak. I 
believe that Mr. L. Wray, Jr., and Dr. Hartert for a few days 
in 1888, are_the only other ornithologists who have collected on 
these mountains. Mr. Wray was fortunate in being the first 
man on the ground, and he made the most of his opportunities, 
obtaining, apparently, all the then new species which are at all 
common on the hills, and several which must be distinctly rare, 
as I failed to procure a single specimen of some of them in two 
months energetic collecting. The ornithological results of Mr. 
Wray’s very successful collecting expeditions i in the mountains 
were described by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe in two papers in the 
P. Z. S. for 1887 and 1888, which have been reprinted in the 
Journal of this Society (No. 19, p. 125., and No. 21, p. 1.) 
These two papers deal with collections nade on the Larut 
Hills and on the Batang Padang Mountains. For practical pur- 
poses they may both be taken as dealing with the birds of the 
Larut Hills, the avifauna of the higher mountains, as far as is 
yet known, not differing appreciably from that of the lower 
range. In fact, all the novelties yet obtained in the mountains 
of the Malay Peninsula occur at 3,000 to 5,000 feet altitude. <As 
yet no single species has been discovered with a habitat restrict- 
ed to the higher elevations of 6,000 or 7,000 feet, though it is 
quite possible that some such forms may exist. 
Ninety-five species are enumerated in these two papers, 
which do not include birds not actually obtained. My list is 
longer, containing113 species, as I have included all birds seen 
and identified as well as those shot. Mr. Wray’s lists contain a 
number of species which I did not come across, while mine con- 
tains several which are not to be found in Mr. Wray’s. The 
obvious inference to be drawn from this is that there are pro- 
