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AVES. 
Length of bill from gape, 1 inch ; from front, 10 lines, 
„ of wings, 4-| inches. 
„ of tail, 3-| indies. 
„ of tarsus, 7 lines. 
„ of middle toe, 9 lines. 
„ of hallux, 7 lines. 
This bird is for the most part to be seen only in deep 
jungle, and is by no means common in Labimu. 
Fam. StumidEe. 
Sub-fam. Ptilonorhyncbinae. 
Gen. Calornis. 
Calornis Panayensis (Gray). 
Lainprotornis cantor (Temm.). 
Sulaukir (Malay name). 
Black, with green metallic reflections, in some lights showing a 
tinge of purple j feathers on the head and neck pointed and narrow; 
hill and feet black ; iris brilliant scarlet. 
Length, about 7| inches. 
„ of bill from gape, 10| lines ; from front, 8 lines. 
„ of wings, 3 inches 9 lines. 
„ of tail, 2 inches 0 lines. 
„ of tarsus, 9| lines. 
„ of middle toe, 9 lines. 
„ of hallux, 8 lines. 
Common in Labuan ; and as the jungle is cleared, these 
birds appear to become more and more abundant. They fly 
in flocks of a dozen or twenty, and feed on fruit, usually re- 
maining only a few minutes on one tree, then with a loud 
noisy chatter straggling aw'ay one or tw'o at a time to another 
tree. They also haunt the low brushwood which has sprung 
up where the jungle has been cleared, and of which the pre- 
vailing plant is a nettle-looking shrub, bearing an abundance 
of small yellow berries ; of these they are very fond, and the 
natives say that when fat upon this diet they are good eating ; 
when feeding, they nsiially perch very close together. They 
breed in society ; and a colony of them have taken possession 
of the cliff on the south side of a little bay, in the northern 
part of the island, where they make holes for their nests in 
the earth between the rocks ; upon the least alarm they all fly 
out, screeching loudly, but do not go flir away ; they also 
breed in the hollows of tall dead trees, and frequently hold a 
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