12 Elliot on Birds from Nortkcasl Borneo. [J:inu;iiy 



[Kiniihatangaii River. Iris red Shot in coarse grass or rushes grow- 

 ing in swampy phiccs. — C. F. A.] 



ORDER PSITTACI. 



Family PsittacidyE. 

 70. Palaeornis longicauda. 



Psittacus lo)iiric(uida BoDD. Tabl. PI. Enl. 8S7 (1783). 



PaUnornis longicauda G. R. Gray, Gen. Bds. II, p. 410 (1S46V — Salv 

 Ucc. Born. p. 22 (1S74). — Sharpe, Ibis, 1S77, p. 9; ih. 1S90, p. i. 

 [Sandakan River. The only specitnens seen were in an old c:learing 

 where they alighted on the tops of some high trees left standing. Occa- 

 sionally several would start off together, flying very swiftly as thev circled 

 about, keeping up a continual chatter, and then re-alight. — C. F. A.] 



71. Loriculus galgulus. 



Psittacus galgulits LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, 150 (1766). 

 Coryllis galgulus FiNscn, Die Papag. II, p. 699 (186S). 

 Loriculus galgulus Salv. Ucc. Born. p. 26 (1S74). — Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, 

 p, I. 

 I Sandakan River. Iris brown. Apparently not common. — C. F. A.] 



ORDER ACCIPITRES. 



Family SxRiGiDyi;. 

 72. Ketupa ketupa. 



Strix ketupa HoRSK. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 141 (1S21). 



Ketupa Java nensis Less. Trait. Ornith. p. 114 (1831). — Salv. Ucc. Born. 



p. 20 (1874).— Sharpe, Cat. B. p. 8 (1875). 

 Strix ccylonensis Lath, {ncc Gmel.) Ind. Orn. I, p. 52, sp. 3 (1790). — 



Temm. Plan. Col. pi, 74.' 

 [Suanlamba River. Iris yellow. Malay name, Boor'ung han'-tu. The 

 Malays of the country are quite timid if, while out at night, the notes of 

 this Owl are heard, as they think the spirits of the departed manifest their 

 presence through the agency of these birds. — C. F. A.] 



73. Syrnium myrtha. 



Ciccaba myrtha Bon. Consp. Av. I, 44. — Salv. Ucc. Born. p. 21 (1874). 

 Myrtha sumatrana Bon. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 541. 

 Syrnium myrtha Sharpe, Cat. B. p. 264 (1875). 



