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Show 332 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE BIRDS OF LABUAN. [Apr. 1, 38. HALCYON CHLORIS (Bodd.). Halcyon chloris, Motl. & Dillw. t. c. p. 13 ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. pi. 87. Sauropatis chloris, Salvad. t. c. p. 103. Sent by Governor Ussher and Mr. Treacher. According to the latter gentleman, the native name is " Burong mukichic." Mr. Low renders the native name as " Burong bukikick." He sends three eggs of this species, taken on the 22nd of March ; they are pure white, axis 1-15-1*2 inch, diam. 0*95-1*0 inch. Governor Ussher writes :-" Extremely common everywhere, both close to habitations and in the forest. It is a very noisy bird, and appears to give warning to others of the approach of danger. It has not seldom prevented me from getting a shot at the white Pigeon on Enoe." 39. EURYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS (L.). Eurystomus orientalis, Salvad. t. c. p. 105. Eurystomus pacificus, Motl. & Dillw. t. c. p. 11 (nee Lath.). Governor Ussher writes :-" Very common among the dead forest-trees, but keeps at a great height, hawking after insects, and is consequently not very easy to obtain. It reminds me in its motions of Eurystomus afer and E. gularis of West Africa, though its flight is much more lofty and not so quick as in E. gularis." The native name is given by Mr. Treacher as " Lakei." Family CAPRIMULGID^E. 40. CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS, Horsf. Caprimulgus macrurus, Salvad. t. c. p. 117. Caprimulgus salvadorii, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 99, pi. xx. fig. Native name " Kampa-kampa " (Treacher). The distinguishing marks, principally consisting of the white edgings to the scapular feathers, which induced me to separate the Labuan bird as Caprimulgus salvadorii, seem to me, now that I have examined a large series, to be dependent on the age of the individual, and I feel compelled to suppress the species. I do this with great reluctance, as I had attached to it the name of Count Salvadori, with whose excellent work on the birds of Borneo commences quite a new era in the history of Malayan ornithology. This Goatsucker is the common species in Labuan, and lays two eggs on the ground. The eggs sent by Mr. Low measure about 1*3 inch in length, diam. 0*9-0*95; they vary a good deal in shape and in markings, the ground-colour being creamy buff with faint purplish marblings and irregular lines; on some are seen overlying blotches and spots of brown. Governor Ussher says that it is "very common, pitching about the roads and pastures, making a loud and disagreeable noise at night, resembling the rapid strokes of a hammer on a hollow tree; it lays two eggs amongst dead leaves." n. Batrachostomus auritus (Temm.), Sharpe, P. Z.S. 1875, p. 101. o. Batrachostomus javensis (Horsf'.), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 101. To be expunged from the list of Labuan birds. |