THE IBIS. 



FOURTH SERIES. 



No. XI. JULY 1879. 



XX. — Contributions to the Ornithology of Borneo. By U. 

 BowDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.— Part IV.* On the 

 Birds of the Province of Lumbidan, North-western Borneo. 



(Plates VII., VIII.) 



During the past two years I have examined three large col- 

 lections from North-western Borneo^ all of them of very great 

 interest. The first of these was sent by the Hon. Hugh Low, 

 now British Resident at Perak, and well known to ornitho- 

 logists for the researches which he has made into the natural 

 history of the island of Borneo, where he resided for many 

 years. By means of the collectors trained by himself, Mr. 

 Low was enabled to send along with the last consignment a 

 large number of eggs of Bornean Birds, in every case accom- 

 panied by the old female, trapped on the nest in the way in 

 which the Malays are such adepts. 



In my last paper I noticed a small collection sent from 

 Sarawak by my old friend Governor Ussher, whose name, 

 already familiar to the readers of ' The Ibis ' for his 

 successful ornithological expeditions in Western Africa, 

 will meet with a hearty welcome in the new collecting- 



* For Part iii. see Ibis, 1878, p. 414. 

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