Appendix. 359 



and rump straw-yellow, with darker longitudinal centres of black or 

 green ; upper tail-coverts and tail glossy oil-green ; crown of head 

 and nape black ; hind neck and neck-hackles, as well as sides of 

 neck, straw-yellow, deeper un the hind neck, with green longitudinal 

 centres to the feathers ; remainder of under surface of body black 

 with a green gloss ; comb short and rounded ; sides of face and 

 entire throat bare. Total length 34'5 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 9*0, 

 tail 17*5, tarsus 3 "4. 



Mr. Burbidge procured a single example of this jungle-fowl, 

 which appears to be a very distinct species. He tells me that it was 

 brought to the ship by one of the Sulu natives alive, and he cannot 

 vouch for its having been a wild bird. I have, however, shown the 

 bird to Mr. Gould and other ornithologists ; and they agree with 

 me that it is probably a distinct species of Jungle-fowl. Governor 

 Ussher also has seen the bird ; and he tells me that he has never 

 seen any domesticated fowls in Borneo or the Eastern Islands which 

 approached this species in the least. 



OX COLLECTIONS OF BIRDS FROM KINA BALU 

 MOUNTAIN IN NORTH-WESTERN BORNEO. 



By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.B., 



Senior Assistant, Department of Zoology, British Museum. 



PROC. ZOUL. SOC. 1879. Pakt II. 

 [Received February 11, 167D.] 



The great mountain of Kina Balu lias always been a locality 

 of interest to the student of Bornean ornithology ; but I am 

 not aware that any notes on the natural history of this part of 

 northern Borneo have ever been published. It gives me great 

 pleasure, therefore, to give a list of the specimens obtained by 

 Mr. Treacher's collectors,* and of a few others submitted to 



* These collectors accompanied Mr. Peter Veitch and myself during the 

 first expedition to Kina Balu, undertaken in November and December, 

 1>77. The specimens collected l>y them were obtained along the route 

 from Gaya Hay to the village of Kiau (alt. 3,000 feet). They did not 

 ascend the mountain itself, but collected around Kiau until our return. 

 ]'. W. 15. 



