218 ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS [1872. 



Bornean birds were described or enumerated by any of the older aiithors. Until the island was 

 visited bv the Dutch collectors in the time of Temminck, it is doubtful whether a single Bornean 

 bird reached tlie hands of an ornithologist. 



The objects of especial interest contained in Mr. Everett's last collection are Anjusianus 

 grmji, Pityriai^is f/ymnocephalus, of which rare species a considerable number of individuals were 

 obtained, and Setornis criniger. Lesson. Until we possess complete catalogues of the Malaccan, 

 Sumatran, Javan, and Philippine birds, and all their allied forms have been compared, it will be 

 premature to comment on their geographical distribution. For the present all that we are 

 warranted in saying is that the Bornean ornis exhibits a near relationship to the Sumatran and 

 Malaccan, less to the Javan, and still less to the Philippine ; while its few ornithic affinities with 

 the neighbouring island of Celebes it has in common with the more distant Sunda islands. 



Paljeobxis LOXGR'AUDAxrs (Bodd.), Tabl. PL Enl. p. 53 (1783), ex D'Aubenton; O. Finsch, 

 Papag. ii. p. 77. 



Perruche de Malac, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. 887. 

 Ibis, 1872, Palceornis malaccensis. Vigors; Motley & DillwjTi, Labuan, p. 26. 



Palceornis (iffinis, Gould, B. of Asia, pt. x. pi. — , av. juv. (18-38), fide Blyth, Ibis, 18G5, 

 p. 42. 



Sarawak {Everett) ; Banjermassing {Motley) ; Sumatra, Malacca {inus. nostr.) ; Bangka {Sal. 

 Midler) ; Nias Isl. {v. Bosenherg). 



In a Sumatran example the middle rectrices measure 10| inches. 



HiER^vx c^RULESCENS (Linn.), S. N. i. p. 125, no. 9 (17G6), ex Edwards. 



Little Black and Orange-coloured Indian Hawk, Edwards, Ulustr. pi. 108, " Bengal." 



Ilierax malayensis, Strickl. Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 33, " Malay countries" (1844). 



" ]\Iarup, ? ." 



Does not diff'er from Sumatran and Malaccan examples. No rufous about the head. The 

 wing measures 3| inches. The writing on the label is indistinct, but seems to read " iris light 

 brown." The Javan bird has yet to be compared. 



Spilornis BACiiA (Daudin), Traite, ii. p. 43 (1800), ex Levaillant. 



Le Bacha, Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 08, pi. 15, " South Africa " ! 



S^nlornis cheela (Daud.), apud Wallace, Ibis, 1868, p. 15, "Borneo, small race of the Indian 

 species," nee Daudin. 



Falco cheela, Daudin, Traite, ii. p. 44 (1800), to which species Mr. Wallace {I. c.) referred 

 the small Bornean Spilornis, was founded on I^atham's Cheela Falcon, Syn. Suppl. p. o^, = Falco 

 cheela. Lath. Ind. Om. i. p. 14, no. 14 (17'.)0), described as from India, where it is known "by 

 the name of Cheela ; size large and of a very stout make ; length 2 feet or more " (Lath. /. c). 



Falco bacha, Daudin (/. c), is tlic title Daudin gave to Le Bacha, Levaillant {I. c). 



Levaillant's type is generally supposed to have come from Java ; and his plate agrees well with 



Tbis, 1^72, the Javan bird. Falco hido, Ilorsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 137, is a synonym {conf. Sundev. 



^' ' Kritisk, Ois. d'Afr. p. 25). This Bornean species appears to be smaller than cither of these two 



