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Show 1880.] MR. RAMSAY ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF SUMATRA. 13 Mus exulans and Mus vitiensis of Peale1:-the former about inches long, with hair like a Norway Rat; the latter a house-mouse, about three inches long. I propose to name this species Mus huegeli, after its discoverer, who informs me that it does not frequent the houses of the natives, but is found in long grass among rocks and sand in the mountains. It is very probably the Rat which Mr. H. N. Moseley in his ' Notes by a Naturalist on the ' Challenger,'' mentions (p. 308) as having been chased unsuccessfully among the undergrowth on the mountains, when his party were at Levuka, Ovalau, in 1874. 4. Contributions to the Ornithology of Sumatra.-Report on a Collection from the neighbourhood of Padang. By R. G. W A R D L A W R A M S A Y , F.Z.S., 67th Regiment. [Received December 30, 1879.] (Plate I.) On the 9th August, 1878, Mr. Carl Bock, a Swedish naturalist, arrived at Padang, on the west coast of Sumatra, with the intention of penetrating into the mountains of the interior to investigate their fauna for the late Marquis of Tweeddale, who had secured his services for that purpose. Mr. Bock (in epist.) says that he was considerably delayed by having to go to Batavia, in order to obtain passports from the Governor-General of the Netherlands, India, and a permit to import his guns and ammunition into Sumatra. Losing as little time as possible, Mr. Bock started towards the mountains, and spent three days at Ayer-mantcior with Dr. Beccari \ who had been collecting for several months in the neighbourhood ; he then proceeded vid Tamar-datar and Boca to Mount Sago, which is about seventy miles to the north-east of Padang. The summit of Mount Sago is described as being about 8000 feet above the sea-level, and clad with virgin forest; but the highest point reached by Mr. Bock was 5000 feet. He collected in three weeks about one hundred specimens, although the weather was wet and unfavourable. The bad weather having rendered a longer stay on this mountain unadvisable, he moved southward to Sidjoendjoeng, where, after collecting for some time, he proceeded by a tedious route to Paio in heavy rain. In this locality Mr. Bock collected for about a month, and then, towards the close of the year, again moved southwards a distance of about 100 miles to Mocara-labo and Ayer-angat, near the frontier of Korintzi territory. At Ayer-angat he was much disappointed at the scarcity of birds, 1 U.S. Explor. Exped. viii. pp. 47-49, 1848. 3 The results of Dr. Beccari's labours have been laid before the public in a paper by Count T. Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1879, pp. 169-253. |