1879.] ON BIRDS PROM NORTH-WESTERN BORNEO. 245 



COLUMBA MELODA, Tsch. 



Les oeufs trouves a Tumbez au commencement de mars 1877 sont 

 blancs, legerement jaunatres, a coque jauue en transparence. Di- 

 mensions: 31-8x24, 32x23-8, 31-2x24, 33-8x23-5 millim. 



2. On Collections of Birds from Kina Balu Mountain, in 

 North-western Borneo. By E. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., 

 r.Z.S., Senior Assistant, Department of Zoology, 

 British Museum. 



[Eeceived February 14, 1879.] 

 (Plate XXIII.) 



The great mountain of Kina Balu has 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 me by Mr, Burbidge 

 and obtained during his recent expedition to this mountain. The 

 latter gentleman is well known from his successful botanical re- 

 searches on Kina Balu ; and I shall shortly lay before the Society 

 an account of some of his ornithological discoveries in the Sooloo 

 archipelago. 



The present collection, though small, is of some importance ; and 

 the character of some of the birds seems to show that the moun- 

 tains of Borneo, when thoroughly explored, will produce many 

 species akin to those found in the mountains of Java, Sumatra, and 

 even of the Himalayas. 



1. BUTASTUR INDICUS. 



Butastur indicus (Gm.), Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 297. 



Poliornis indica (Gm.), Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 9. 



A specimen in nearly full plumage, collected by Mr. Burbidge. 



2. Bubo orientalis. 



Bubo orientalis (Horsf.), Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 39. 



B. sumatranus (Raffl.), Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 19. 



A fine adult specimen in Mr. Treacher's collection, agreeing with 

 the diagnosis given by me {I. c), and measuring 13 inches in the 

 wing. 



3. Megal^ma versicolor. 



MegaTcema versicolor (Rafll.), Marsh. Mon. Capit. pi. 22. 

 Chotorea versicolor, Salvad. tom. cit. p. 33. 

 Three adult specimens, obtained by Mr. Burbidge. 



