Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe — Bornean Notes. 545 



XIII. Additions to the Avifauna of Mount Dulit. 



In a collection formed by Mr. Ernest Hose on this 

 mountain occur the following species not as yet recorded 

 from Mt. Dulit :— 



Batrachostomus auritus. 



Batrachostomus amntus (Gray) ; Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus, 

 xvi. p. 637. 



Examples are in the Museum from Labuan and Trusan. 

 Mr. Hose's specimen was obtained in February, at an 

 elevation of 1000 feet only. 



Falco ernesti, sp. n. 

 F. similis F. melanogeni, sed nigricantior, subtus ubique 

 cinereo adurabratus, et subalaribus axillaribusque nigris, 

 lineis parvulis albis transfasciatis. Long. tot. 1 5*5 poll., 

 alse 116, caudse 5*5, tarsi 1*9. 



Ever since the Museum received from Mr. Pretyman 

 the extraordinary Peregrine Falcon which Mr. Gurney 

 described in the 'Ibis' for 1882 (p. 302), I have felt con- 

 vinced that it would be found to represent a resident form 

 inhabiting the Indo-Malayan islands. I was therefore 

 very pleased to receive from my friend Mr. Charles Hose 

 two specimens of the same form of Peregrine from Mt. Dulit. 

 These consist of an adult male and a half-grown nestling, 

 which were obtained by Mr. Ernest Hose at a height of 

 4500 feet ; the female was also shot, but it fell down some 

 hundreds of feet of precipice and was never found. 



" The nest,^^ writes Mr. Hose, '^ was on a ledge of the 

 sandstone cliff 50 feet high, without anything but the rock 

 to catch hold of. My brother waited patiently for seven 

 days while a ladder of rattans and trees was being made, and 

 then succeeded in getting the young one." 



The adult male is a remarkably beautiful specimen, and 

 is evidently of the same race of Peregrine as Mr. Pretyman's 

 bird from the Lawas River, but is not quite so red on 

 the chest. The closeness of the barring of the under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries is remarkable and gives the species a 

 much blacker look than F. melanogenys, while no specimen 



