216 DR. p. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF BORNEO [May 26, 



70. Prinia ? {Chunuk betul.} 



A common little bird in the long grass ; it flies with a peculiar 

 jerking flight, like a Grasshopper. 



[A species not in the E. I. M. — P. L. S.] 



Fam. Pycnonotid^. 



71. Pycnonotus analis (Horsf.). Ixos analis, Bp. Consp. 

 p. 265. 



Shot by my hunter near Martapora. 



[This bird is often called P. goiavier (Scop.). But Sonnini's 

 figure, on which Scopoli's name is based, represents a bird from 

 Manilla, which is probably of a different species. I therefore prefer 

 to use Horsfield's name analis for this bird. — P. L. S.] 



72. Criniger gutturalis, Bp. Consp. p. 262. 



Fam. TuRDiD.E. 



73. CopsYCHus AMCENUS, Horsf. : Moore's Cat. p. 279. C.pluto, 

 Temm. {Tingon.) 



An exceedingly common bird here, and apparently all over the 

 Archipelago. It frequents the neighbourhood of houses more than 

 most of the native birds ; and its song is very sweet, something like 

 part of that of a Blackbird. It is a very lively and active bird, and 

 very conspicuous as it sits on the top of a stump to sing, perpetually 

 jerking up its tail like a Magpie, to which in miniature it bears a con- 

 siderable resemblance. The nest is of grass, and is placed in a fork 

 or hole of a tree ; the eggs are five or six, and resemble those of our 

 Yellowhammer {L'mberiza citrinella), 



[Mr. Wallace tells me that Bornean and Javan specimens of this 

 bird agree ; so that C. pluto, the fifth species in my list of this genus 

 (given P. Z. S. 1861, p. 186), must be united to the fourth. — 

 P.L.S.] 



74. CopsYCHUs suAvis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 185. (Tingon.) 



. A much wilder species than the last, and more rarely seen, though 

 nearly as common. 



Fam. ORiOLiDiE. 



75. Oriolus xanthonotus, Horsf. 



A rare bird, and oftener heard than seen, as it sits usually in a 

 thick dark tree, repeating at short intervals a low melancholy whistle. 

 I have several times tried in vain to see this bird, when perfectly sure, 

 from its constantly repeated cry, that it was in the tree I was examin- 

 ing, and have only induced it to take flight by firing at random 

 among the branches. One of the specimens sent was, oddly enough, 

 killed in this way, without being aimed at or seen. 



