10 BIRDS OF THE LARUT HILLS. 
bably yet a number of species on the hills which neither of us 
met with and that our united lists are by 1o means complete. 
Some more novelties are sure to be obtained in time on _ these 
mountains; the small and inconspicuous species especially are 
likely to repay attention. 
I am much indebted to Mr. J. P. Rodger, British Resident, 
Selangor, for assistance kindly afforded me while he was acting as 
Resident of Perak. In giving me permission to collect for 
scientific purposes Mr. Rodger requested me to restrict myself 
to four specimens of a species. It will be seen that on the 
whole I contented myself with considerably less. 
I have also to thank Mr. L. Wray, Jr. for much informa- 
tion about the birds of the hills, and for the kindness with which 
he was always ready to go over his own collections with me 
when I was in Taipeng. 
I hope shortly to publish elsewhere a more complete paper 
on the birds at present known to occur on the mountains of the 
Peninsula; in the mean time, I give a list of the species I met 
with during my two montbs on Maxwell’s Hill. The brief notes 
as to elevation, etc., after each species must not be taken as 
hard and fast rules, but only as my individual experience of the 
bird’s habitat, given for comparison with the notes of other 
observers. In this list I have arranged the species according to 
the classification in Messrs. Oates’ and Blanford’s ‘* Bird” vol- 
umes in the Fauna of India Series, inserting those species not in 
the Indian list in what seemed to me their proper places, I 
have not, as is usually done, inserted the names of Families and 
Sub-families in large print between each few species, as in most 
cases it seems to me unnecessary waste of space. 
The identifications in this list are, I believe, absolutely 
reliable. A numeral in brackets following the note on a species 
denotes the number of specimens I obtained. In all cases where 
such a number follows, the birds have been worked out by no 
less an authority than Dr. Ernst Hartert, of Tring Museum. 
The remaining species are identitied by myself, but they are all 
birds with which I was previously, or have since become, fami- 
liar, and I am confident of the correctness of the names given. 
In some cases where species have be 2n split up into recognized 
