A Malay-English dictionary,

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ADDENDA.
ADDENDUM A.
LIST OF MALAYAN WILD BIRDS.
[This rudimentary list was given me by Mr. A. L. BUTLER, formerly of the Selangor Museum.
have since been able to supplement it somewhat; my additions and notes are given in brackets.]

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Ayam-ayam: the water-cock; gallicrex cinerea.
[Ayam borga, ayam denak,] and ayam hutan: the junglefowl, gallus ferrugineus.
Ayam pegar: the fireback pheasant, lophura rufa or
euplocomus vieilloti. [Also burong merah mata.]
Burong babi: the adjutant, leptoptills javanicus.
B. bangau: the egrets; bubulcus corontandus and herodias
intermedia.
[B. barau-bara: the yellow-crowned bulbul; trachycomus
ochrocephalus. Also b. bebarau.]
B. bayan: the paroquet; palcornis longicauda.
[B. bebarau: v. b. barau-barau.]
[B. beberek: v. b. berek-berek.]
B. belatok: a generic name for wood-peckers of which
about twenty species occur in the Peninsula. [Also
pelatok.]
[B. belatok biji nangka: the fulvous-rumped barred woodpecker; miglyptes grammzithorax.. belatok punggor:
the Malay black wood-pecker; thriponax javensis.
B. bilatok rimba: the golden-backed wood-pecker;
chrysocolaptes gutticristatus.
B. belibis: the whistling teal; dendrocygnajavanica.
[B. berek-berek: the bay-backed bee-eater; merops sumatranus. Also (Kedah) b. beberek.]
B. berkek: the snipe; gallinago stenura and gallinago
ccelestis. [Also (Kedah) b. tetirok.]
B. berkok: the largest of the green pigeons; butreron
capelli.
B. bertam: the black jungle-partridge; mnelanoperdix
nitgra.
[B. binti-binti: the Malayan blue king-fisher; alcedo
meninting.]

B. bubut: the common coucal, centropus eurycercus; and
the lesser coucal (or crow-pheasant), centropus
bengalensis.
[B. chawi-chawi: = b. chechawi, q. v.]
B. chechawi: the racquet-tailed drongo; dissemurus
platurus. [Also called b. chawi-chawi, and b. chenchawi.] Cf. also b. hamnba kera.
[B. chelong: the black jay; platysmurus aterimus.]
[B. chemperling: = b. perling, q. v.]
[B. chenchawi: = b. chechawi, q. v.]
[B. chenok: the malkohas, i.e., the red-breasted malkoha,
ramiphococcyx erythrognathus; and the Sumatran
malkoha, rhopodytes sutlmatranus.]
[B. chichit: = b. siyul, q. v.]
B. teggang: a generic name for [large] hornbills,
[especially the great hornbill, dichoceros bicornis, and
the rhinoceros hornbill, buceros rhinoceros.]
B. gagak: the Indian jungle-crow, corvus macrorhynchus.
B. hamba kera: "the monkey's slave," a name given to
the racquet-tailed drongo because it follows troops of
monkeys to feed on the insects they disturb from the
foliage. See b. chechawi.
[B. hantu: a generic name for owls other than the brown
hawk-owl (punggok).]
B. hujan: the black and red broadbill, cymborhynchus
macrorhynchus; [and the dusky broadbill, corydon
sumatranus. Better: b. tadak hujan. It is also called
(Dindings) b. rakit.]
[B. inggerek: v. b. kelichap.]
B. itek ayer: the cotton-teal, nettopus coromandelianus.
B. kedidi: a generic name for a sandpiper (totanus) or
small plover (cegialitis).

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