332 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE BIRDS OF LABUAN. [Apr. 1, 



38. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.). 



Halcyon chloris, Motl. & Dillw. t. c. p. 13 ; Sharpe, Monogr. 

 Alced. pi. 87. 



Sauropatis chloris, Salvad. t. c. p. 103. 



Sent by Governor Ussher and Mr. Treacher. According to the 

 latter gentleman, the native name is " Burong mukichic." Mr. Low 

 renders the native name as " Burong bukikick." He sends three 

 eggs of this species, taken on the 22nd of March ; they are pure 

 white, axis 1*15—1*2 inch, diam. 0-95-1-0 inch. Governor Ussher 

 writes : — "Extremely common everywhere, both close to habitations 

 and in the forest. It is a very noisy bird, and appears to give 

 warning to others of the approach of danger. It has not seldom 

 prevented me from getting a shot at the white Pigeon on Enoe." 



39. EuRYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS (L.). 



Eurystomus orientalis, Salvad. t. c. p. 105. 



Eurystomus pacificus, Motl. & Dillw. t. c. p. 11 (nee Lath.). 



Governor Ussher writes : — "Very common among the dead forest- 

 trees, but keeps at a great height, hawking after insects, and is 

 consequently not very easy to obtain. It reminds me in its motions 

 of Eurystomus afer and E. gularis of West Africa, though its flight 

 is much more lofty and not so quick as in E. gularis." 



The native name is given by Mr. Treacher as "Lakei." 



Family Caprimulgid^e. 



40. Caprimulgxjs macrurus, Horsf. 

 Caprimulgus macrurus, Salvad. t. c. p. 117. 



Caprimulgus salvadorii, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 99, pi. xx. fig. 1. 



Native name " Kampa-kampa " (Treacher). 



The distinguishing marks, principally consisting of the white 

 edgings to the scapular feathers, which induced me to separate the 

 Labuan bird as Caprimulgus salvadorii, seem to me, now that I 

 have examined a large series, to be dependent on the age of the 

 individual, and I feel compelled to suppress the species. I do this 

 with great reluctance, as I had attached to it the name of Count 

 Salvadori, with whose excellent work on the birds of Borneo com- 

 mences quite a new era in the history of Malayan ornithology. 



This Goatsucker is the common species in Labuan, and lays two 

 eggs on the ground. The eggs sent by Mr. Low measure about 

 1*3 inch in length, diam. 0"9-0'95 ; they vary a good deal in shape 

 and in markings, the ground-colour being creamy buff with faint 

 purplish marblings and irregular lines ; on some are seen overlying 

 blotches and spots of brown. Governor Ussher says that it is "very 

 common, pitching about the roads and pastures, making a loud and 

 disagreeable noise at night, resembling the rapid strokes of a hammer 

 on a hollow tree ; it lays two eggs amongst dead leaves." 



n. Batrachostomus auritus (Temm.), Sharpe, P. Z.S. 1875, p. 101. 

 o. Batrachostomus javensis (Horsf.), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 101. 

 To be expunged from the list of Labuan birds. 



