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Northern Portion of the Malay Peninsula. 
fields at night for rats, &c. ; it is very common in 
Patani, but appears to be a decidedly rare bird in the Straits 
Settlements and in the Federated Malay States, where we 
have met with very few specimens. 
One was collected at Chong in December. 
65. Syrnium maingayi. 
Syrnium maingayi Hume, Stray Feathers, vi. p. 27 
(1878) ; Robinson, p. 172. 
Chong, Trang, 10th December, 1909. 
Agreeing well with specimens from the more southerly 
portions of the Peninsula. 
66. Huhua orientalis. 
Bubo orientalis (Horsf.) ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 39. 
? . Lamra, Trang, 21st February, 1910. 
Widely distributed throughout the country, but everywhere 
rare and rather difficult to obtain. 
67. Ninox scutulata. 
Ninox scutulata Raffles ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 156. 
Fairly common everywhere, especially in winter, when its 
numbers appear to be added to by migrants from the north, 
and it is often found at that season on extremely small 
islands. 
68. Scops malayana. 
Scops malayanus Hay ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 58. 
We have a pair of this species from Trang and a few 
others from various parts of the Malay Peninsula, including 
the Langkawis, but the bird is everywhere rare. 
The male of the Trang pair is in a foxy-red phase of 
plumage, while the female is grey. 
69. Scops lempiji. 
Scops lempiji (Horsf.); Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 91. 
The commonest of the Scops Owls, which are all very 
nocturnal and difficult to get, though their melancholy hoots 
are much heard, especially on moonlight nights. We have 
