arch Station: [Male], August 26,
1962, MCT 2813.
Flocks of three and four were seen in the cocoa. At Kalabakan the
species was feeding about 40 feet up in the second canopy layer of
the primary forest.
_=Phaenicophaeus diardi borneensis=_ (Salvadori): Lesser Green-billed
Malcoha.--_Specimens_, 3: Cocoa Research Station: [Female], 58.2 gm.,
July 22, 1962, MCT 2636; [Female], 55.8 gm., September 8, 1962, MCT
2890; [Male], September 13, 1962, MCT 2918.
This malcoha was seen only three times; it was the second most
common malcoha.
_=Phaenicophaeus javanicus pallidus=_ (Robinson and Kloss): Red-billed
Malcoha.--_Specimens_, 2: Cocoa Research Station: [Female], 97.0 gm.,
August 31, 1962, MCT 2841; [Male], 98.0 gm., September 8, 1962, MCT
2889.
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,
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