FEOM KOBIXCHI, W. SUMATEA. 275 



Epitnys korinchi, sp. nov. Type : — Adult female (skin 

 •and skull), Federated Malay States Museums, Xo. 442/14, col- 

 lected at Sungei Kring, Korinchi Peak, 7,300', West Sumatra, 

 on 26th April 1914, by H. C. Kobinson and C. Bo den Kloss. 



Characters: — Like E. baluensis (Thomas) 11 with long, 

 soft and spineless fur, beset on the upper surface with numer- 

 ous longer piles : hut with longer tail and paler underparts ; 

 nasals broader, but bullae much smaller: teeth considerably 

 larger. 



Measurements: — Head and body, 166 ; tail, 224; hindfoot, 

 34: ear, 23 mm. (measured in flesh). Skull: greatest length, 

 41.0; conylo-basilar length, 35.5: diastema, 10.9: upper molar 

 series, 7.9; length of palatal foramina, 8.2; median nasal 

 length, 15.3 : breadth of nasals, 4.9 : zygomatic breadth, 19.0 

 mm. 



Specimens examined: — The type and an immature 

 female. 



Epitnys muelleri campus, subsp. nor. Type : — Adult 

 female (skin and skull) Federated Malay States Museums 

 Xo. 586/14, collected at Pasir Granting, coast of West Sumatra, 

 Lat. 2° T' S., on 18th June 1914, by H. C. Robinson and C. 

 Boden Kloss. 



Characters: — Like the typical E. muelleri, 1 ' 2 but with the 

 buff element in the upper pelage a little richer in tone : 

 rostrum decidedly broader, zygomatic width greater and the 

 bullae a little larger. 



Measurements : — Head and body, 214; tail, 256 : hindfoot, 

 44 mm. (measured in flesh). Skull: greatest length, 53.1; 

 condylo-basilar length, 46.0: diastema, 14.2; upper molar row, 

 9.2: length of palatal foramina, S.6: median nasal length, 

 22.0; breadth of nasals, 6.0 : zygomatic breadth. 26.6 mm. 



Specim ens exa m inecl : — Three. 



BIRDS. 

 STRIGIDAE. 



Pisorhina vandewateri, sp. nor. A small species of 

 owl, with the bill clear yellow, tarsi partially bare for one third 

 their length in front, post-cervical collar strongly marked. A 

 member of the group in which is included Heteroscops luciae 13 

 of Borneo, Heteroscops nil pes 14 of the Malay Peninsula and 



11. Mus baluensis, Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xiv, p. 458 

 (1891). 



12. Mus muelleri, JentinJj, Notes Leyclen Museum, ii, p. 16 (1880). 



13. Scops lueiae, Slmrpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 478; id. op tit. 1889, p. 77, 

 PI. III. 



14. Heteroscops vulpes, Ogilvie Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xix, p. 11 

 (1906). 



R, A. Soc, Xo. 73, 1915. 



