268 MR. R, B. SHARPE ON [May 15, 1. List of a Collection of Birds made by Mr. L. Wray in tlie Main Range of Mountains of the Malay Peiiinsulaj Perak. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.j Zoological Department^ Britisli Museum. -._ [EeceiTed April 24, 1888.] (Plate XV.) From the collections previously sent by Mr. Wray {cf. P. Z. S. 1§86, p. 350, and 1887, p. 431) it was so easy to prophesy that his future explorations would bring to light the existence of more Himalayan genera in the high mountains of the Malayan Peninsula, that I can take little credit for my prognostications ; but the fore-shadowing of Mr. "Wray's accomplishments does not impair the credit of that explorer's success in his last expedition into the mountain-ranges of the interior of the Peninsula. He states that the mountains on which he has lived for six months " contain really very few more birds than the Larut range, though they are so much more extensive," and he collected up to an altitude of 7000 feet. By the present collection several interesting forms have been revealed, representatives of allied species in Tenasserim, and the ranges of several birds are extended southwards. The genera hitherto unrecorded from the mountains of Malacca are Anthipes, Brachj/p-teryx, Gampsorhynchiis, and Cutia — all Himalayan and Tenasserim forms, of which, so far as we know, only Brachypteryx has occurred in Sumatra. The Avifauna of the latter island is further linked to that of the mountain-ranges of the Malay Peninsula by the discovery of a Black Babbling Thrush, representing the Melanociclila bicolor of Sumatra. The unexampled success which has attended Mr. "Wray's efforts so far will, we hope, encourage him to still further investigations of the interesting region in which he is domiciled. The references in the present paper are chiefly to Mr. Gates' ' Handbook of the Birds of British Burmah,' which includes an allusion to the paper on the Birds of Tenasserim by Messrs. Hume and Davison. I have also referred to Count Salvadori's essay on Dr. Beccari's collections from high Sumatra (Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 169), whenever there occurs any affinity in the Avi-fauna of that island with the collection under discussion. Mr. Wray's original remarks, by far the most important part of the present paper, are placed in inverted commas. Fam. Falconid^. Neopus malayensis (Temm.). Neopus malayensis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 433 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 44. " No. 18. $ ad. Mountains of Perak (Gunong Batu Putch).
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