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[[ first met with this beautiful little bird at an altitude of 4000 feet, where it frequented the parasitic 
plants and flowers on high trees. In some trees were large clusters of parasites, which were covered 
with small fruits ; these trees were regularly visited by this Dicceum. Iris, feet, and bill black.] 
162. Dictum nigrimentum, Salvad. 
[Common, especially in the neighbourhood of gardens and other open spaces. I have a beautiful 
nest of this bird, which is a small rounded pocket suspended from the underside of a small twig, well 
sheltered from above by the broad leaves of the tree. The nest is composed of white (seed) down, and 
woven on the outside with small red leaves and fine grass-stems. The eggs were three in number and 
pure white.] 
163. Dictum chrysorrh^um, T. 
[Iris red ; feet and bill black.] 
164. Dicjsum trigonostigma (Scop.). 
[Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet greyish black.] 
165. Prionochilus xanthopygius, Salvad. 
166. Prionochilus thoracicus (T.). 
[Iris, feet, and bill black.] 
Family IIiRUNBiNlDiE. 
167. Hirundo javanica, Sparrm. 
[Native name for all Swallows and Swifts “ Liang-liang.” 
Iris, feet, and bill black.] 
Family Motacilliiae. 
168. Motacilla melanope, Pall. 
[This species prefers the beds of rocky torrents, where it is generally met with singly. On Kina 
Balu it frequented streams up to 3000 feet. Native name “ Bras bras.” “ Bras ” is “rice” in Malay, 
and as Wagtails visit Borneo in swarms during the rice-planting season and frequent the fields when the 
grain first springs up, the native name is derived from this circumstance.] 
169. Motacilla flava, L. 
170. Anthus richardi, Vieill. 
Recorded from Borneo for the first time. 
171. Axthus gustavi Swinh. 
Family Sturnidal 
172. Sturnia yiolacea (Bodd.). 
173. Calornis chalybea (Horsf.). 
[Very common in Labuan, where they frequent the fruit-gardens and other open spots. They retire 
to rest in large flocks in the cocoa-nut trees, where they take some time before settling down, making a 
good deal of noise. 
This Starling nests in holes in dead trees in colonies, and I have seen them frequenting a dovecot in 
numbers for nesting-purposes. 
Native name “ Salangkir.” 
Iris bright vermilion, feet and bill black.] 
174. Gracula javanensis (Osbeck). 
[Common, frequenting the more open districts, where it nests in holes in the old dead trees. This 
bird is, in Borneo, as elsewhere, a great favourite with the natives, who teach it to talk. Native name 
“ Teung.”] 
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