Northern Portion of the Malay Peninsula. 6G1 
Mr. Leonard Wray, the first Curator of the Perak Museum, 
deserves special mention. 
In 1882 a paper was published on the Ornis of the Island 
of Salanga, also known as Tongka or Junk Zeylon, which 
must not be confused with the State of Selangor iu the south 
of the Peninsula. This paper, which added little to our know¬ 
ledge and contains numerous incorrect identifications, is duly 
mentioned in the synonymy. 
From 1882 onwards the northern Malay Peninsula was 
left severely alone by the ornithologist until 1896, when the 
native State of Trang was visited by the famous American 
collector and naturalist, Dr. W. L. Abbott, of Philadelphia. 
Dr. Abbott spent some considerable time in Trang during 
the years 1896 and 1897 and also in 1899, and in addition to 
forming a collection of mammals, which was the starting- 
point of the reinvestigation of that section of the Malayan 
fauna from a modern standpoint, he got together a series 
of over three thousand bird-skins. A few species have been 
described from this magnificent collection by Dr. C. W. Rich¬ 
mond and other specimens have been mentioned, but it is 
extremely unfortunate that no full account of it has as yet 
appeared, as, from information kindly supplied to us by 
Dr. Richmond, it is evident that it contains material of very 
great interest, including examples of several species not 
hitherto recorded from the Peninsular area. 
It was largely with a view to securing examples of species 
which we knew Dr. Abbott had obtained in Trang, but which 
were desiderata to the local collections, that we decided to 
work that State, which had remained unvisited by a collector 
since 1900, though in 1902 Dr. Annandale passed through 
it from the eastern side and noted a few interesting birds, 
notably the Wood-Duck, Asarcornis leucoptera. 
The following papers deal directly with that district, but, 
except in a few instances, we have not quoted them, but have 
confined the synonymy to a reference to the f Catalogue of 
Birds 3 . and to a recent paper by one of us which is quoted 
throughout as “ Robinson:— 
