3 
LIST OF THE BIRDS FROM JAVA 
COMPILED BY 
A. G. VORDERMAN. 
34 Government Physician at Batavia. 
It is some years since I compiled this list of Javanese birds 
from the many publications on the avifauna of that island 
scattered through several periodicals and other works. 
_ Му principal sources of reference have been 
Tuomas HonsrrELD, Zoological. researches in Java and the 
neighbouring islands. қ 
J. Темміек, Nouveau recueil de planches coloriees ` 
d'oiseaux. 
Bonaparte, Conspectus Generum Avium. 
Н. ScureceL, Museum d'Histoire naturelle des Pays-Bas. 
G. R. Gnav, Hand-List of genera and species of Birds. 
T. Sarvaponr, Catalogo sistematico degli uccelli di Borneo. 
I wish to offer. somé previous remarks on the systematic 
arrangement and nomenclature, І have adopted. Тһе first is 
the same as used by Prof. H. Scurecer іп »De Dierentuin 
van het K. Z. Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra” (The Zool. 
Gard. of the R. Zool. Soc. Nat. Art. Mag.) Part. Birds, 
supplied in a few parts only by his descriptive catalogue 
of the Birds in the Leyden Museum. 
The nomenclature has been given in most cases in accordance 
With the names used bij modern ornithological authors. For 
some few families however, such as the Noctuae, Accipitres , 
