206 DR. P, L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF BORNEO [May 26, 



8. Observations on the Birds of South-eastern Borneo, 



BY THE LATE JaMES MoTTLEY, Esft., OF BaNJERMASSING ; 



WITH Notes by P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 Secretary to the Society. 



My friend Mr. L. L. Dillwyn having placed in my hands some 

 MS. notes written by the late Mr. James Mottley of Banjermassing 

 (who was killed in the Malay insurrection at that place in 1860), 

 together with the series of bird-skins to which the notes refer, I have, 

 with the kind assistance of Messrs. A. R. Wallace, J. H. Gurney, 

 and A. Newton, determined the species, and added some few remarks 

 on their synonymy and geographical distribution. 



Mr. Mottley's collection contains specimens of 134 species of Bor- 

 nean birds. As no connected list has ever been published of the 

 birds of Borneo, the present may be useful to a certain extent as a 

 contribution to geographical ornithology, although the series is in 

 many points obviously very imperfect. 



It may be observed that the greater number of the birds of Borneo, 

 as shown by the present collection, are common to Sumatra and 

 Malacca. In some instances the Malaccan and Sumatran species are 

 replaced by representatives sufficiently different to render specific 

 separation possible. For example, we have in 



Borneo. ~] "a f Sumatra and Malacca. 



MegalcBma chrysopsis, ^ ■-' Megalama chrysopogon. 



Megalorhynchus sanguinolentus, ■S .2J Megalorhynchus hayi. 



Meiglyptes badiosus, I ^ ^ J Meiglyptes badius. 



Mixornis borneensis, ^'-g =° ] Mixornis sumatrnna. 



Copsychus suavis, ^ a Copsychus macrurus. 



Edolius brachypterus, ^ ? Edolius paradiseus. 



Crypsirrhina aterrima, J 2i "^ I Crypsirrhina leucoptera. 



But there are a few species (such as Munia fuseans) which, so 

 far as we know at present, are unrepresented in the latter countries. 



The generic types peculiar to Borneo are very few in number. 

 Galgulus sive Pityriasis gymnocephalus is perhaps the only very 

 noticeable type peculiar to the island ; but as the interior mountains 

 of Borneo are wholly unexplored, it is not improbable that future 

 explorers may yet find much that is interesting in the untraversed 

 central regions. 



Fam. Falconid^. 



1 . Falco peregrinus, Liim. {Rajah ivali.) 



An exceedingly courageous bii'd. No prey is too large for him to 

 attack : he is even said to kill young deer. Rare. 



2. HiERAx c^rulescens (Linn.). (Along lulalang — Grass- 

 hopper Hawk.) 



Not uncommon here, perpetually on the wing, and living on large 

 insects and small birds. I have never seen so courageous a bird. 



