On Birds from the Malay Peninsula. 
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XXX.— On Birds from the Northern Portion of the Malay 
Peninsula , including the Islands of Langkawi and Terutau ; 
with Notes on other rare Malayan Species from the Southern 
Districts. By Herbert 0. Robinson, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 
Director of Museums, Federated Malay States, and Cecil 
Boden Kloss, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Curator, Perak State 
Museum. 
(Plate X. and Text-fig. 6.) 
The collections of which an account is given in the present 
paper have in the main been obtained during the past two 
years in the northern portion of the peninsula, in part by 
ourselves and Mr. Seimund, and in part by native collectors 
attached to the Museums of the Federated Malay States, our 
ordinary duties not permitting any very continuous periods 
of field-work. 
In view of the fact that no connected account has ever 
appeared of the birds of the districts in which we collected, 
we have thought it of interest to prepare a fall list of all 
species obtained by us, specimens of which are preserved 
either in the Selangor and Perak Museums or, in a consider¬ 
able number of cases, in the Natural History Museum, South 
Kensington. 
In some few instances, on account of the special interest 
attaching to them, birds are mentioned which have not, as 
yet, been met with in the area covered by the present paper, 
but to these no serial number is attached. 
It will be seen that the list contains some 270 species 
only, but it will probably be found ultimately that some four 
hundred or more are represented in the area treated of. 
Our own collections were formed in very circumscribed 
localities, while our collectors were only in the country for 
between two and three months, and for various reasons did 
not spend more than a very small proportion of this period at 
any elevation on the hills, which were found to be singularly 
unproductive. Several species, therefore, obtained by other 
collectors in adjacent districts, or which might reasonably be 
expected to occur, have not as yet been procured^ though it is 
