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A LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS, COMPILED BY A COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 8vo. London, 1883. Price 10s. 6d. ON THE WINGS OF BIRDS. By C. J. SUNDEVALL. Translated from the original Swedish by W. S. DALLAS, F.L.S. Reprinted from 'The Ibis' for 1886. 8vo. London, 1886. Price 2s. 6d. GURNEY & JACKSON, 1 Paternoster Row. (Successors to John Van Voorst.) THE IBIS. SIXTH SERIES. No. V. JANUARY 1890. I.-On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo. By R. BOWDLER SHARPE, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. With Notes by JOHN WHITEHEAD.-Part V.* Order PSITTACI. 194. PALEORNIS LONGICAU DA. Palæornis longicauda (Bodd.); Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 22; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 9; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 325; Brüggem. Abhandl. Bremen, v. p. 454; Blasius, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 23 (1883). a. ♂ juv. Benkoka, Nov. 1, 1885. [Common in the lower reaches of rivers, especially near the higher swampy growth. I have seen these birds settle in large flocks in the high trees, and but for the continual shower of falling leaves, which they were nipping off, should not have known they were there. Not met with at any distance inland. Loriculus galgulus (L.); Salvad. t. c. p. 26; Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 36; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 325, 1881, p. 791; Brüggem. t. c. p. 454; Blasius, t. c. p. 24. *Continued from 'The Ibis,' 1889, p. 443. SER. VI.-VOL. II. B a. ad. Labuan, July 2, 1885. b. ad. Sandakan, April 22, 1885. [Common in Labuan, frequenting fruit-gardens. Native name Trepas."] Order PICARIÆ. Fam. TROGONIDE. 195. HARPACTES WHITEHEADI. Harpactes whiteheadi, Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 395, pl. xii. , b. ♂ ad. Kina Balu, March 19-24, 1888. c.. ad. Kina Balu, April 2, 1888. [This beautiful Trogon was met with on my second expedition, at 4000 feet, where it frequented the dark and wet patches of old forest. These birds generally sit in the higher branches of the lower forest trees, and seldom move, except to take short flights from perch to perch. They generally keep their dull-coloured backs to the hunter, thus rendering themselves more like a bunch of dead leaves, for which they may often be mistaken. The plumage is so soft that if the birds fall from any height they are spoilt as specimens, bunches of feathers coming out of these soft "puff-balls." On the 4th of April, whilst I was taking shelter from the rain under some palm-leaves, one of these Trogons settled on a tree quite close to me; it uttered every now and then a peculiar growling note, swaying its tail backwards and forwards, spreading out the feathers with each movement, and every now and then making a short flight to capture some insect, and settling on another perch. The young birds in nestling-plumage are similar to the female, but there is little or no distinction in colour between the throat, breast, and the rest of the lower parts. The pencilling of the wing-coverts is not nearly so fine, the yellow and black stripes being broader. The colour of the back is not so bright, being mixed with greyish down. I have a young male, in which the crimson feathers of the back and breast are mixed with the brown nestling-plumage. The soft parts are as figured in 'The Ibis' (l. c.), having been taken from my sketches made from the freshly killed bird. |