Bird notes. F.N. Chasen and C.B. Kloss. Records of the Raffles Museum, No. 13
A short note by F. N. Chasen and C. B. Kloss comprising three brief taxonomic and faunal observations: the introduction of an Australian scink to Singapore, the range of a White-rumped Swift subspecies in the Malay Peninsula, and a nomenclatural clarification for a Bornean bird (p. 101).
Summary
The first section documents the presence of Egernia depressa, an Australian scink, in the Raffles Museum collection, with specimens taken in the Singapore dock area and one found in a cargo of sandalwood, suggesting introduction via timber ships from south-western Australia (p. 101). The second section reports the examination of White-rumped Swift specimens in the Federated Malay States Museums, confirming the presence of the subspecies Micropus pacificus cooki (Harington) from Kedah Peak at 3000–4000 ft, with intermediate forms recorded from Semangko Pass and Bukit Tangga (p. 102). The third section argues that Lesson’s Setornis criniger, originally cited from Sumatra, is identical with Blyth’s Trichophoropsis typus from Borneo, and that the Sumatran type locality is an error; the authors examine a series of twenty Sarawak specimens and note the species is distinct from Tricholestes criniger Blyth, warranting generic separation (pp. 102–103).