II. 



REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 



By W. K. OGILVIE-GRANT. 



British Museum (Xaturat. History), Cromwell Road, London, 



FIELD NOTES. 



By H. C. ROBINSON. 



OY1TH TITO PLATES.) 



r PHE bulk of the large Collection of Birds, forming the subject of 



the present memoir, was procured by Messrs. L. Wray and H. C. 

 Robinson on G-unong Tab an, the high mountain on the northern border 

 of Pahang, during the summer and autumn of 1905 ; a few Birds 

 subsequently obtained during a brief expedition to Gunong Ulu Kali 

 in the early part of 1906 are also included. The last-named mountain, 

 rising to an elevation of about 6,000 ft., and one of the highest points 

 in Selangor, terminates the range known as Mengkuang Lebah, from 

 whence Mr. Robinson has already forwarded specimens of Polyplectron 

 inopinatus (Rothsch.), Myiophoneus robinsoni, Grant, and other species 

 of great interest and rarity. 



The close affinity between the high-land Fauna of Sumatra and 

 Borneo and that of the Malay Peninsula is clearly demonstrated in 

 the present collection. Seven of the birds appear to represent unde- 

 scribed forms — viz., a remarkable Jay (Cissa robinsoni), which may be 

 regarded as representing C. jefferyi, Sharpe, from KinaBalu ; a White- 

 eye (Zosterops tahanensis), being a dark form of Z. aureiventer, Hume ; 

 a Shortwing (Brachypteryx wrayi), allied to B. nipalensis (Moore), but 

 with a darker reddish-brown female ; a small Fly-catcher (Muscicapula 

 malayana) near If. hyperythra (Blyth), but darker, the female especiallv 

 so ; a very dark-coloured and quite distinct Green Woodpecker 

 (Gecinus robinsoni); a very rare small Owl (Heteroscops vulpes), a rufous- 

 coloured representative of 27. Incite (Sharpe), from Kina Balu ; and, 

 lastly, a very distinct green Fruit-Pigeon (Sphenocercus robinsoni), 

 most nearly allied to S.permagnus (Stejn.), from the Loo-Choo Islands, 

 and more remotely to 8. korthahi from Sumatra and Java. 



The following species are new to the British Museum — viz., Pyrrh ula 

 water stradti, which was obtained both on Gunong Tahan and Gunong 

 Ulu Kali, Pterythius takamemU, Suya waterstradti and Siva malayana, 

 of each of which large series were procured. 



