the District of Lampong , S.E. Sumatra. £85 
a stay of about three months, collected some birds in the 
district of Palembang, penetrating a hundred and twenty 
miles inland; but no separate account of his collection has 
appeared. 
During a period' of a little over five months, commencing 
the 30th of May, 1876, Mr. Edmund Charles Buxton travelled 
in the Lampong district, situated at the south-eastern ex¬ 
tremity of Sumatra, and there made a large collection of 
birds, which he has kindly placed at my disposal, and of which 
I now propose to give an account. He started from Telok 
Betang and went inland to Sockedana, a distance of about 
80 miles, and obtained in all 152 species, of which two appear 
to be undescribed. The general character of the birds in 
this part of Sumatra is Malaccan. Of Mr. Buxtom’s collec¬ 
tion only twelve species are not inhabitants of the Malaccan 
peninsula as at present known; and of these eleven are Javan 
species, some of them recurring in Burma and one in India. 
They are Dendrotypes analis, Batrachostomus cornutus, Xan- 
tholcema rosea , Dicceum flammeum, Rubiyula dispar , 07'iolus 
coronatus, Prinia familiaris, Buchanga leucophcea, Pericro- 
cotus ooanthogaster , Munia leucogastroides, Crypsirhina vari- 
ans, Sturnopastor contra. One, Batrachostomus cornutus , is 
known, out of Sumatra, to occur in Borneo only. 
The proportion of species, seventy-nine, which have also a 
Javan habitat is large, as might be inferred would be the case 
from the narrowness of the straits which separate South¬ 
eastern Sumatra from the western extremity of Java. This 
number may eventually be shown to be still greater when the 
ornis of Java is better known. 
Some notes were kept by Mr. Buxton; but, as they are 
chiefly descriptive of the plumage, I have only incorpo¬ 
rated the few observations which relate to the soft parts 
or to habits. The chief value of the collection consists 
in its enabling us to establish positively, by critical com- 
derlandsche overzeesche bezittingen: Land- en Volkenkunde (1839-44) ; 
.Zoologie (1889-44). 
