Eupetidae

Eupetes macrocerus
Malaysian Rail-babbler
Maleise Raltimalia (Dutch)

ZMA 56975
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Near-Threatened A strange rail-like piedly-coloured inhabitant of the floor of primary forest in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra (nominate macrocerus), as well as Borneo (ssp. borneensis), distantly related to Australian crow-like birds. Has strongly decreased because much of the lowland primary forest has been cut, and secondary forest usually have too dense a bottom vegetation or do not offer enough shade to be favourable for the species. Locally still common in logged forest or on hill-forest on slopes, and probably not in immediate danger of extinction

Items in the ZMA - 10 birds:
ZMA 3020 [Unsexed adult], undated [before 1880], ''Malacca'' [= West Malaysia], old former mount.

ZMA 56966-56969 Adult males, 19 Nov & 3 Dec 1919 and 13 & 22 Jan 1920, Sungei Tasik (03°49'N, 98°15'E), Langkat, NE Sumatra, Indonesia, coll. A.F.C.A. van Heijst 1933, 038, 0218 & 0258, skins.

ZMA 56970-56971 Adult & juvenile female, 9 Nov 1919 & 22 Jan 1920, Sungei Tasik (03°49'N, 98°15'E), Langkat, NE Sumatra, Indonesia, coll. A.F.C.A. van Heijst 1934 & 0259, skins.

ZMA 56973-56974 Unsexed adult, undated [before 1900], [Lampung Province, S Sumatra], Indonesia, collector unknown, local name: 'Burung Kakatut', skins.

ZMA 56975 Adult male, 20 Jun 1916, Basilam [= Pesilam (c. 03°48'N, 98°20'E)], Langkat, NE Sumatra, Indonesia, coll. L.P. le Cosquino de Bussy, no nr. (old nr 210), skin.

Remarks
All birds are nominate macrocerus, as the ZMA has no Bornean birds.

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