A 
iS Ort BTRDS 
OF THE 
BORNEAN GROUP OF ISLANDS 
BY 
i, Jely JAERI OADID eM EVAKSy 
aS OSS 
NOTE. 
x HE only complete lists of the Birds of Borneo and 
a its adjacent islands hitherto published appear to be 
4 ~—s the well known ‘‘ Catalogo Sistematico degli Uccelli 
di Borneo” of Count SALVADORI and a “ Liste des 
4S Oiseaux de Borneo” by M. VORDEMAN. The first 
named work appeared as the fourteenth volume of 
the Annals of the Civic Museum of Genoa in 1874, 
and although still indispensable to students of Indo-Malayan 
ornithology, it has now fallen out of date in many important 
respects, while the list of M. VORDEMAN is simply a catalogue 
of titles without references, brought out at Batavia in 1886, 
‘and it also is already out of date. Such being the case, I 
have endeavoured, in the following list, to compile a fresh 
catalogue of all the species of birds authentically recorded up 
to the present date as inhabiting or visiting the Bornean 
group of islands, with the object of providing a provisional 
hand-list to be of temporary use to field collectors and others 
until material shall have been so far further accumulated as 
to enable some competent ornithologist to take up-the Bor- 
nean avifauna and treat it in an exhaustive manner. This 
cannot be done until more adequate series of authentic Bor- 
