248 Mr. R, B. Sharpens Contributions to the 



provisions which would have formed an ample meal for a pig 

 twenty times his own weighty he would 'saw the air' with 

 his great wings^ and, having gained his favourite perch on the 

 tall camphor-tree, would sun himself and plume his wings, 

 and shriek until he became hungry rather than hoarse/' 



Rhinoplax VIGIL (Forst.). 



Rhinojjlax vigil, Elliot, Monogr, Bucerotidae, pt. i. 

 Rhinoplax scutatus, Bodd. ', Salvad. /, c. p. 88. 

 Lawas river [Treacher). 



Merops philippinus (L.). 



Merops philippinus, Salvad. t. c. p. 89. 



Lumbidan {coll. Treacher). 



Two specimens. Native name " Tampak kwio.'' 



Merops sumatranus, ^affl. 



Merops bicolor, Bodd. ; Salvad. t. c. p. 90. 



Lumbidan [coll. Ussher). 



Nyctiornis amicta (Temm.). 

 Nyctiornis amicta, Salvad. t.c. p. 91. 

 Lawas river [coll. Treacher) . 



Alcedo meninting, Horsf. 



Alcedo meninting, Salvad. t. c. p. 93. 



Lawas river [coll. Treacher). 



Alcedo euryzona, Temm. 



Alcedo euryzona, Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. pi. viii. ; Salvad. 

 t. c. p. 95. 



Lawas river [coll. Treacher). 



A specimen with the rufous breast, identified by me as the 

 young bird (/. c) . The existence of this species in Borneo 

 has hitherto depended upon the authenticity of a specimen 

 in the Philadelphia Museum ; and as the locality has always 

 been open to doubt, the finding of the bird on the Lawas 

 river by Mr. Treacher is a point of considerable interest. 

 From Mr. Hume's remarks [' Stray Feathers/ 1878, pp. 82, 

 83) it would appear that the bird I considered to be the 

 young of this species is probably the old female. 



