1872.] ON BIRDS FEOM NORTHEEN BOENEO. 217 



Described from specimens obtained in the Khasia Hills. 



This bird has hitherto been considered identical with the Javan T. |n7e«!^ff, Horsf. A 

 comparison I have recently been enabled to make with authentic Javan examples has convinced 

 me of their specific distinctness. True T. inleata is a larger bird ; in it the bill is much more 

 powerful, its altitude being quite double that of examples from the Khasia Ilills ; the crown of 

 the head is bright ferruginous, not dark chestnut ; the colour of the upper plumage, wings, and 

 rectrices is considerably paler ; that of the lower is pale tawny ; and the ashy colour of the black- 

 shafted breast-plumes is less intense. My deeply lamented friend Dr. Jerdon fully concurred 

 with me in the propriety of separating the two species. 



In the ' Birds of India ' (/. v.) this species is said to extend through the Malayan peninsula 

 to Java ; but I believe that it has never been found further south than Arracan. Neither it nor 

 the Javan species has been shown to occur in the Malayan peninsula or in Sumatra. It seems 

 to belong to that category of Javan forms (such as llarpactes orescius, Crypsirldna varians, 

 Bhringa remifer, &c.) which, while absent from the intermediate regions of Sumatra and the 

 Malay peninsula, reappear further to the north in Burma, some penetrating as far as Nepal. 



On a Collection of Birds recently made hij Mr. A. H. Everett in Northern Borneo. By Arthue, Ibis, 1S72, 

 Viscount Walden, P.Z.S., F.R.S. [From ' The Ibis,' October 1872, Plate XII. in orig.'] P' ^'^*^- 



Having lately had an opportunity of examining a small collection of birds obtained in Northern 

 Borneo by Mr. A. H. Everett, it has occurred to me that a list of the species it included might 

 form an acceptable addition to our knowledge of the avifauna of that island. Hitherto the 

 Bornean collections sent to London by Mr. Everett have been dispersed before being catalogued, 

 and the valuable materials he had contributed to the formation of a complete list of North- 

 Bornean birds were thus rendered unavailable. This is the more to be regretted, as most of his 

 specimens have labels attached which give the origin and sex of each example, and other useful Ibis, 1872, 

 information. These notes, whenever they occur, are introduced within inverted commas. ^' 



Our knowledge of Bornean ornithology dates from comparatively recent times, and is not 

 extensive. In 1855 Messrs. Motley and Dillwyn* published the first part of a work on Bornean 

 zoology, which, unfortunately, was not continued. The ornithological portion of the subject is 

 well treated. In 1863 Mr. Sclater t published some observations on the birds of South-eastern 

 Borneo by Mr. Motley, to which he added some valuable original notes. This paper comprises 

 a list of 134 species. These two publications, I believe, embrace all that has been written of a 

 connected character on the Bornean avifauna. Besides, we have nothing but scattered notices of 

 new species by various authors, from Temminck to Salvadori. Indeed it is curious that no 



* Contributions to the Natural History of Labuau, &c. Part 1. London, July 2, 1855. 

 t Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 206. 



