Birds from North Borneo: University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966Thompson, Max C.
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Birds from North Borneo: University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966
Thompson, Max C.
Birds -- Malaysia -- Sabah
The two specimens were taken in cocoa. On October 2, 1962, I saw
one about 100 feet up in the top canopy layer of the primary forest
at the Cocoa Research Station and, on October 3, two more hopping
from branch to branch about 150 feet up in a tree.
_=Phaenicophaeus curvirostris borneensis=_ (Blasius and Nehrkorn):
Chestnut-breasted Malcoha.--_Specimens_, 7: Cocoa Research Station:
[Female] old brood patch, 121.8 gm., July 6, 1962, MCT 2602; [Female],
September 4, 1962, MCT 2864; [Male] testis 3 x 2 mm., 143.6 gm., wing
molt, July 7, 1962, MCT 2611; [Male] testis 6 x 2 mm., 111.0 gm., August
11, 1962, MCT 2763; [Female], May 25, 1963, ADG 110. Ulu Balung: sex?,
July 24, 1963, ADG 216. Tiger Estate: [Male], June 22, 1963, ADG 156.
This was the most numerous of the malcohas at the Cocoa Research
Station. It was observed in primary forest, secondary forest,
citrus trees, and cocoa trees. In the primary forest it ranged in
the upper canopy from 100 to 150 feet up.
As Peters has indicated (1940:56), the name _P. c. borneensis_
(Blasius and Nehrkorn) 1881 has priority over _P. c. microrhinus_
Berlepsch 1895 (used by Smythies).
_=Centropus sinensis=_ (Stephens): Common Coucal.--_Specimen_, 1: Cocoa
Research Station: [Female], May 15, 1963, ADG 108.
The finding of a coucal at the Cocoa Research Station on May 15,
1963, came as something of a surprise, since none had been seen
there earlier by our group. Coucals were seen at Tawau but were not
collected or identified to species.
_=Centropus bengalensis=_ (Gmelin): Lesser Coucal.--_Specimens_, 2:
Tuaran: [Female], April 1, 1963, ADG 46; sex?, December 3, 1963, SCFC
17.
_=Carpococcyx radiceus radiceus=_ (Temminck): Ground
Cuckoo.--_Specimen_, 1: 12 mi. N Kalabakan: [Male] imm., November 7,
1962, MCT 3217.
This male was taken in a native snare in primary forest and
provides our only record. The specimen is in the postjuvenal (first
prebasic) molt.
This record is the first for this species from North Borneo
(Smythies, 1957:643); others are known from Sarawak and Indonesian
Borneo.
_=Otus bakkamoena lemurum=_ Deignan. Collared Scops Owl.--_Specimens_,
3: Tiger Estate: [Female], November 25, 1962, MCT 3319. Tenom: [Male]
testis 6 x 5 mm., body molt, January 1, 1963, MCT 3552. Agricultural Oil
Palm Station: [Male], October 6, 1963, ADG 299.
The specimen from Tenom was taken in a bird net set in a
grass-scrubland situation; the testes were regressing. Harrison
(Smythies, 1957:645) found this species breeding in the Kelabit
uplands in January.
_=Glaucidium brodiei borneense=_ Sharpe: Pygmy Owlet.--_Specimen_, 1:
Ulu Balung: [Male], July 19, 1963, ADG 210.
The specimen taken by Garcia is the sixth known (Smythies,
1957:646) from Borneo and the first from the east coast. Specimens
were collected in 1956 in North Borneo by the Cambridge Expedition.
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