Tfd-O Elliot on Birds from Northeast Borneo. ^October 



"The natives say that it builds its nest in the cocoanut trees, 

 and is always about them, hence its local name of 'Cocoanut 

 Bird.' They also told us that it remained throughout the year ; 

 that the eggs were pure white ; and that the young birds differed 

 from the old in plumage. From the condition of the organs of 

 generation, it seems that the bird breeds during the month of June. 



" The stomachs of those examined contained the remains of a 

 grasshopper, beetles, and seeds ; hence it may be inferred that 

 its food consists of fruits and insects." 



A LIST OF BIRDS FROM NORTHEAST BORNEO, 

 WITH FIELD NOTES BY MR. C. F. ADAMS. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT. 



The greater portion of the species enumerated in this paper 

 were obtained by Mr. Adams in the vicinity of Sandakan. The 

 extent and character of the region explored in making this collec- 

 tion is very fully described by Mr. Adams in the following para- 

 graphs, which, with the field notes relating to the species, he has 

 kindly furnished. Mr. Adams sent his collection of birds to the 

 American Museum of Natural History for identification, and 

 specimens of all the species given below (except three, Nos. 43, 

 5S and 83, included on Mr. Adams's own authority) have passed 

 through my hands. The types of Copsychns adamsi (sp. nov.), 

 and a set of duplicates from the collection, have been kindly pre- 

 sented by Mr. Adams to the American Museum. 



[The following notes refer to birds collected in a narrow east and 

 west tract lying in that particular part of British North Borneo 

 between 5 30' and 5 40' N. Lat., and crossed by the meridian 

 of 11S E., during the time from May, 1SS7, until Feb., iSSS, 

 while making a specialty of collecting the mammals of that region. 

 The list includes a fair representation of what one may expect to 

 find in that locality, although in a number of cases but one speci- 

 men of a species was observed. As is usual with the coast region 

 of Borneo, this region is for the most part low, with occasionally 



