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SOME NOTES ON BIRDS IN SARAWAK. 
Scops lempiji, Horsf. 
(The Collared Scops Oivl.) 
The bird when sitting looks very like a ball of feathers, 
and is nearly as broad as it is long. The stomach con¬ 
tained insects. Oil-gland long and bare ; iris light brown. 
Loriculus galgulus, Linn. 
(The Blue-crowned Hanging Parroquet.) 
Fairly common and a popular cage bird with the 
Malays. The bill is black; iris dark brown ; cere greenish ; 
feet and claws a pale brown. These birds will often hang 
head downwards in a cage for hours. The note is a shrill 
little chirp. 
Eurystomus orientalis, Linn. 
(The Eastern Boiler.) 
Not common. I have only seen one specimen in Upper 
Sarawak. The bill is large, broad, and very decidedly 
hooked; bright crimson, only the hook being black ; the 
feet are crimson and the claws black ; iris brown. 
Pelargopsis leucocephala, Gm. 
(The White-headed Kingfisher.) 
Not common, but may often be seen on big lakes and 
rivers. Iris brown, and not round; eyelids crimson; feet 
and tarsus red and typical, claws black. A female shot at 
Bau in February had its stomach empty and ovaries well- 
developed. Saw plenty of these up the Sadong river in 
April. 
Alcedo meninting, Horsf. 
(The Malayan Kingfisher.) 
Not uncommon, but it keeps to the jungle streams 
chiefly. 
August 27th, 1912.—Shot a male at Tai Ton on the 
Sarawak river. The bill is black but orange at the gape ; 
feet and claws coral red. The flight is very swift, with 
short quick beats of the wings, like the common English 
Kingfisher. The stomach seemed to contain the remains 
of fish, but these may have been insects, as they were very 
much decomposed. 
September 18 th, 1912.—Noticed one of these Kingfishers 
catching fish by darting at them from a bush at the side 
