On A Collection of Birds from N. E. Sumatra 



BY 

 H. C. ROBIXSOX, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



AXD 

 C. Bodex Kloss, F.Z.S., M.B.O.TJ. 



PART II. 



Since the publication of the first part of this paper (antea 

 pp. 74-133), we have been favoured with a further series of birds 

 by Heer A. C. F. A. van He} T st which, containing as it does, a con- 

 siderable number of species not included in his former consign- 

 ments, merits description in detail. In addition we have received 

 a copy of a paper by Dr. L. F. de Beaufort and Dr. L. P. de Bussy 

 " Yogels van de Oostkust van Sumatra " (Bijdragen tot de Dier- 

 kunde uitgegeven door het Koningklijh Zoblogisch Genootscliap 

 " Naturis Artis Magktra" te Amsterdam, xxi, pp. 229 to 276 

 (1918?) which deals with a large collection of birds made in pre- 

 cisely the same localities as that of Heer van Heyst. We have 

 quoted this article throughout as " de Beaufort and de Bussy p. — ." 



As the .area covered by the political division known as the 

 Sumatran East Coast Residency has now been explored in some 

 detail, at least as regards its ornithology, we have indicated briefly 

 the total number of species definitely known to occur in the area 

 to which no great additions, except Limicoline, coastal and migrant 

 forms are now to be expected, with the possible exception of such 

 species as thrushes, warblers and white-eyes which may perhaps be 

 found on the summits of the highest mountains above 5,000 feet 

 which have not yet been dealt with. 



We have throughout, where necessar}', quoted the first part of 

 this paper as" antea p. /' 



Two new forms Pycnonotus oimaculatus oarat, inhabiting West 

 Java and the whole of the upland areas of Sumatra and Crypto- 

 lopha montis inornata, known as yet only from the Battak High 

 lands are here described and a new name Teplirodornis pelvica fret- 

 ensis given to the Wood Shrike inhabiting Eastern Sumatra and 

 the Southern Malay Peninsula, while the additions listed raise the 

 number of definitely recorded Sumatran species to 548. 



Heer van Heyst has forwarded us the following additional 

 account of the type of country collected over. 



" The district of Deli can be subdivided into 



(i). Low land up to about 100 m. (225 feet), once 



covered with sea. 

 (ii). Hill land from 100-400 m. (325-1,300 feet). 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 81, 1920. 



