86 ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FEOM N. E. SUMATRA. 



Locustella certhiola (Pall.). (434A). 



Cisticola exilis (Vig. and Horsf.). (441A). 



Trichixos pyrrhopyga Less. (431 A). 



Buchanga leucopltaea batakensis Bob. and Kloss. (468A). 



Buclianga leucogenj/s Walden. (468B). 



Munia atricapilla (Yieill.). (486 A). 



The following names replace those previously used : — 



Macropygia ruficeps sumatrana Kob. and Kloss. (35). 



Lalage fimbriata fimbriata (Temm.). (336). 



Cryptoloplia montis inornata Eob. and Kloss. (331). 



Pycnonotm bimaculatus barat Eob. and Kloss. (369). 



Setaria affinis atricapilla (Bp.). (389). 



Stachyris maculatus pectoralis (Blvth.). (401). 



Cyanoderma erythroptera pyrrhophaea (Hartl.). (406). 



Tephrodornis pelvica fretensis Eob. and Kloss (451). 



Messrs. de Beaufort and de Bussy's list comprises 282 species 

 and Heer van Heyst's 285 of which 224 are common to both, 

 making a total of 343 species. To these must be added 22 species 

 from Dr. Hartert's list, 6 from Salvadorrs list, 7 from Parrot's list 

 and Pitta sclineideri, making a total of 379 species definitely re- 

 corded from the administrative division of Sumatra's East Coast. 



Analysis of the collection which covers a range in altitude of 

 from sea level to about 1500 m. (= 5,000 feet approximately) in- 

 dicates that as regards the montane fauna that of Sumatra is very 

 homogeneous, the only group missing in the present collection being 

 the Javanese element which occurs at higher levels in the moun- 

 tains of the West Coast comprising species such as Tardus indra- 

 purae, Cettia sumatrana, Notodela diana sumatrana, Zosterops 

 montana, Pericrocotus miniatus and the forms of Cryptoloplia allied 

 to grammiceps,. etc. We attach no importance to the absence of 

 such genera as Rimator, and Turdinulus which are easily overlooked, 

 the more so as an equally skulking form, Pnoepijga-, is represented. 

 Among the lowland forms certain essentialh' continental species 

 occur, such as # Geocichla citrina citrina, Otocompsa emeria, Chry- 

 socolaptes guttacristatus and Upupa epops indica; while other races 

 show a tendency to vary in the directions of Northern forms rather 

 than towards the Javanese which, in view of the great length of the 

 island, is not in the least surprising. 



PHASIANIDAE. 



1. Excalfactoria chinensis chinensis(Linn.). Antea, p. 75, 

 de Beaufort and de Buss}', p. 237. 



1 9 Toentoengan, Deli, N". E. Sumatra, 16th October, 



1918 [No. 1134]. 

 Wing, $ , 69 mm. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



