74 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds from the 
during the winter months. It may be of interest to record 
that on December 25th and 26th, 1908, the species occurred 
literally in thousands on the summit of the Larut Hills, 
Perak, at an elevation of 4500 feet, after wind and heavy 
rain. On the 26th not a single bird remained. 
248. Anthus malayensis. 
Anthus malayensis Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 104. 
Anthus rufulus (part.) , Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 574. 
The Malayan Pipit, as everywhere else in the Peninsula, 
was abundant on the rice-fields and other open spaces in 
Trang. 
249. Anthus maculatus. 
Anthus maculatus Hodgs. ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 547; 
Butler, Journ. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. xxxii. p. 21 
(1899); Robinson, p. 212. 
Our men obtained two specimens of the Indian Tree- 
Pipit in low jungle near Chong in December 1909. With 
the exception of the specimens recorded by Butler (loc. cit.) 
from the Larut Hills in Perak, the species has not hitherto 
been obtained in the Malay Peninsula. 
Nectariniidae. 
250. iETHOPYGA SIPARAJA. 
JEthopyga siparaja (Raffies) ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 21 (1884). 
£. Chong, Trang, N. Malay Peninsula, Dec. 1909. 
$. Lamra, ,, ,, „ Jan. 1910. 
This Sun-bird is sparingly distributed throughout the 
Peninsula at low elevations from the Tenasserim border to 
Singapore. It is most common in the vicinity of the coast 
and on the small islands, especially at Singapore and Penang. 
Purther in the interior, and at elevations up to about 3000 
or 4000 feet, its place is taken by the succeeding species. 
The specimens enumerated above, and indeed all those in 
the British Museum from the northern portion of the Penin¬ 
sula, are not typical AE. siparaja , but shew a marked approach 
to JB. cara (Hume, f Stray Feathers/ ii. p. 473, 1874) in 
