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neighbouring Mt. Penrissen at 4000 ft., and the common species 

 C. mystacophanes, which was not wanted for the Museum. The 

 ideal " collecting," of course, is with a pencil and notebook or 

 camera; but, unfortunately, with the great majority of " good " 

 birds, it is almost impossible to distinguish them at the top of a 

 tree and against the light. The deadly gun has to help us to 

 satisfy our curiosity. An experienced collector, of course, can 

 recognize a distinctive bird like a Green Barbet without any 

 difficulty, but with some of the more obscurely coloured Fly- 

 catchers and Babblers, of which there are a great many species 

 in Borneo, this is impossible. 



The only other " obvious " birds unnecessarily obtained were 

 the beautiful Bed Trogon (Pyrotrogon diardi), the Green Broad- 

 bill {Calyptomena viridis) , and a female Bluebird (Irena crinigera) . 

 With the exception of a Small-Barred Woodpecker (Miglyptes 

 grammithorax) , the rest were all Passerine birds and, I am glad 

 to say, nearly all of use to the Museum. 



The beautiful red-breasted Pitta arculata, confined to Bor- 

 nean mountains, was among the first obtained ; Flycatchers 

 were represented by Rhipidura perlata, Cyornis nigrigularis, 

 Rhinomyias umbratile, and Culicicapa ceylonensis ; Bulbuls by 

 the beautiful green Chloropsis viridinucha, the olive- streaked 

 Hemixus malaccensis, and Criniger tephrogenys. The Babblers 

 obtained were Pomatorhinus borneensis, always scarce, though 

 well distributed over Sarawak from the coast up to 5000 ft., 

 Setaria cinerea, Turdinus atrigularis, and Kenopia striata ; the 

 rare Wood- Shrike (Tephrodornis frenatus) , and the pretty Yellow 

 Oriole (Oriolus xanthonotus) , complete our list. 



The above twenty-three species were represented by twenty- 

 five specimens, so that with hardly an exception we obtained no 

 more than one of each species. The Sarawak Museum Collec- 

 tion of Bornean birds is now so fine, thanks to the energies of 

 former Curators (the late Dr. G. D. Haviland, Messrs. Bartlett 

 and Shelford) that the gain of a new locality record is usually 

 more welcome than the gain of another specimen. On the 

 other hand, the birds of Borneo are by no means worked out, 

 even in the collecting line, as the Museum has been responsible 

 for two new records for Borneo in the last three years (Asio 

 acipitrinus, taken in 1911, and Pseudoglottis guttifer, in 1913). 



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