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
This species did not appear at Quoin Hill until August 23. The
gonads of most of the adults taken from that time on appeared to be
regressing from breeding condition, and several immatures were
taken also, suggesting that the breeding season was over. The birds
seemed to be attracted, with bulbuls, to the tree _Trema
orientalis_.
_=Prionichilus maculatus maculatus=_ (Temminck): Yellow-throated
Flowerpecker.--_Specimen_, 1: 12 mi. N Kalabakan: [Male], October 19,
1962, MCT 3094.
I observed this flowerpecker once at Quoin Hill, in much-disturbed
primary forest, but was unable to secure a specimen. Twelve miles
north of Kalabakan it was found in primary forest.
_=Dicaeum chrysorrheum=_ Temminck: Yellow-vented Flowerpecker.--I
observed one feeding about 50 feet high among epiphytic plants in the
moss forest 5.5 miles north of Tenom.
_=Dicaeum monticolum=_ Sharpe: Black-sided Flowerpecker.--_Specimen_, 1:
5.5 mi. SW Tenom: [Male] testis 5 x 3 mm., December 17, 1962, MCT 3449.
I saw this flowerpecker once, in the moss forest above Tenom.
Treatment of this species as monotypic follows the revision of
Salomonsen (1961:17).
_=Dicaeum cruentatum=_ (Linnaeus): Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker.--Along
the seashore near Tawau this species fed in flowering trees. Males were
pugnacious and persistently chased what appeared to be females.
_=Dicaeum trigonostigma dayakanum=_ Chasen and Kloss: Orange-bellied
Flowerpecker.--_Specimen_, 1: 5.5 mi. SW Tenom: [Male], December 23,
1962, MCT 3507.
This flowerpecker was found only in the moss forest above Tenom,
where it was seen numerous times feeding among the epiphytic
plants.
_=Zosterops everetti tahanensis=_ Ogilvie-Grant: Everett's
White-eye.--_Specimens_, 9: Cocoa Research Station: [Female], August 8,
1962, MCT 2734; [Male] testis 4 x 3 mm., August 8, 1962, MCT 2735;
[Female], 8.6 gm., August 11, 1962, MCT 2757; [Female], 7.8 gm., August
11, 1962, MCT 2758; [Female] imm., 7.9 gm., August 11, 1962, MCT 2759;
[Female], 8.2 gm., August 11, 1962, MCT 2760; [Male], 7.8 gm., August
11, 1962, MCT 2761; [Male] imm., August 11, 1962, MCT 2762; [Male] imm.,
7.8 gm., August 11, 1962, MCT 2764.
At the Cocoa Research Station flocks of 20 to 40 birds were seen
daily, feeding in the cocoa trees. Only once was this species seen
away from the cocoa trees; this was in secondary forest where the
birds were feeding in a tree about 30 feet tall. They move in
flocks and are noisy.
Smythies (1960:485) states that this species occurs from the Poi
Range up to the lower slopes of Kinabalu. This is apparently the
first record from eastern Borneo.
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