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Nash, Stephen V

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Kukila 1985 2(2) Jry , No: AMNH 5470) at Tanjung Bringin (original name) . 98 . Although the exact location was not recorded , it could ' Lower Langkat where Schneider collected most of his 11:een November 1897 and March 1898 (Schneider 1905). and Binjai, this area is now covered with oil palm planta-;ex unknown) was reported by Parrot (1907) to have been :e and locality were not identified . ology Museum, (No: 13149) , was taken at Muara Tapoes t) by G .de Haan on 24 Aprill939. Further records include 1 the Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition (1936-1939) near e article, the bird was probably collected on the Laboean ld the coastal town of Belawan (Schauensee and Ripley 11923) report a bird collected by Jacobson in the Mt. Ophir tnd one by de Beaufort and deBussy in the Medan district . locations were not reported . There have been many addi -at different locations prior to the 1940's; these are too i that none recorded the presence of the Masked Finfoot. r is surely one reason for the lack of records . tation from these early sightings up to the present. In 1pilation of references related to Java (primarily) and In-• is not cited . Nor has this species been cited in recent ent) with reference to Indonesian avifauna . been of birds on the Wai (River) Kanan fl owing through .ampung Province) . An adult female was seen on two oc-'· pers .comm.) and 22 Aprill984 (P . Andrew. D. Brad-ling a short distance downstream from the Forestry Dept. ore recently, a reserve guard (Darmanta pers. comm.) ac-occurring in the same location on 3 June 1985 . These Ill occurrence in Indonesia (early December to ea rly June) la laysia. Moreover they dramatically extends the fi nfoots' !m to the southern half of Sumatra . I and riverine forests of Java have been intensively studied no reference to finfoots has been found in the literature . tuthor of an adult male on 7 March 1984 is believed to be vas skulking at the edge of the Rhizophora swamp in the ' S. 106°42' E) in Jakarta Bay. comes available. the coastal and forested riverine habitat LS this migrant's usual habitat in Indonesia. However the :curs only in small numbers and has always been uncom-·ed to be a vagrant beyond the normal limit of its range . e American. European . and Southeast Asian museums tformation on Heliopais personata housed in the ir collec-:ler the World Wildlife Fund- Indonesia Program. Project Kukila 1985 2(2) References Ali , S . & S .D. Ripley, 1980. Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan, together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan , and Sri Lanka. Vo/2: M gapodes to Crab Plover. snd ed. Oxford Univ. Press. London. Baker, E.C.S. 1929. The fauna of British India , including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. Vol VI. Taylor and Francis , London. Hoogerwerf , A. 1953. An ornithological bibliography having particular reference to the study of the birds of Ja va. Org . Sc. Res . lndon. Bull. 13-16: 168p. Jakarta . King, B., M. Woodcock, & E. C. Dickinson. 1975. A field guide to the birds of South-East Asia. Collins, London. Medway , L. & D.R. Wells . 1976. The birds of the Malay peninsula . Vol V . Conclusion , and survey of every species. H.F. and G . Witherby Ltd. London. Parrot, C. 1907. Beitrage zur ornithologie Sumatras und der Insel Bangka mit besonderer Zugrundelegung der von Dr Hagen auf Bangka gesammelten Vogel. Aus den Abhandlungen der K. Bayer. Akademie der Wiss. II . KL.XXIV . Bd I. Abt. Robinson, H.C. & C.B. Kloss . 1923. Revised list of the birds of Sumatra. J . Fed. Mal. St. Mus. 8 : 319-362. Schauensee, R.M. de , & S.D. Ripley. Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition. 1936- 1939. Part I. Birds from Aijeh. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 91 : 311-368. Schneider, G . 1905. Ergebnisse Zoologischer Forschungs-reisen in Sumatra . Erster Teil. Saugetiere (Mammalia). Zoo/. Jahrb . (Abt. F. System) 23: 1-172. Smythies, B.E. 1953. The birds of Burma. Oliver and Boyd Ltd. Edinburg. Wells, D.R. i982. Bird Report: 1974 and 1975. Malgy Nat. J . 36: 6.1-85. Wells, D.R. 1983 Bird Report: 1976 and 1977. Malay Nat. J . 36: 197-218 Address: World Wildlife Fund- Indonesian Program, P .O . Box 133, Bogar. West Java , Indonesia . FIRST DOCUMENTED NESTING OF THE BLACK BUTCHERBIRD IN IRIAN JAYA by Anne D. Nash and Stephen V. Nash Received April 29, 1985 Two nests of the Black Butcherbird Cracticus quoyi were found on Kimaan Island, Merauke District in Southern Irian Jaya. The first nest, with one young, was found on May 20 1984, at the Bugeran River (7°36' S, 138°08' E) on tl)e western side of Kimaan Island. The second nest, with two eggs, was found on May 23 1984 at Tabonji (7°32' S, 138°50' E) on the River Manggumas on the north coast of the island. These two nests represent the first documented information on the nesting of the Black Butcherbird in Indonesia . 43 Kukila 1985 2(2). The first nest was in the crotch of a divided trunk at a height of 5 metres , halfway up · the tree . The nest was a loose construction of coarse twigs, with an inner cup of fine twigs; the height, cup depth, outside and inside diameters of the nest were respec-tively 40 em, 10 em, 22 em and 15 em. The second nest was in the crotch of a tree leaning against another, at the height of 10 metres, three-fifths of the height of the tree; the nest was similar to the first, but its height was only 10 em. The eggs from the second nest had a ground colour of pale green , thickly flecked with pinkish brown and grey over the whole egg but more densely around the broader end. They were moderately incubated. The width of the first egg was 25.5 mm. The measurements of the second egg, which has been deposited at the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense in Bogar, were 33.0 X 25.8 mm. The feathers of the nestling from the first nest were still in sheaths . The legs and bill were pale blue-grey and the iris was brown with a dark blue pupil. The exposed culmen was 26.5 mm, the wing 87 mm, the tail 29 mm and the tarsus 40 mm. At the first nest location , the parents were very agitated and both birds attacked the observer, calling incessantly. At the second location , the two parents were first seen chasing a small accipiter. Later, while one adult was sitting at the nest, its mate came to the nest carrying a large white grub in its bill , then flew to a nearby branch. The incubating adult joined the other bird and , after eating the grub , returned to sit on the nest. Notably, the pair was silent. Acknowledgements We wish to thank the many knowledgeable people who quickly responded to our queries as to existing information on the Black Butcherbird in the Australasian region, notably the late Dr. H. Bell, Dr. B. Bheeler, W.E.Boles, Dr. J . Diamond , Dr. E. Lindgren, Dr. R. Petocz and Dr. R. Schodde. (Editor's note: K.D.Bishop reports finding nestlings in three nests near Kimaan in September 1983 in tops of trees in the scrubby woodland edge of tall mangroves. He notes that this species is remarkably more conspicuous and apparently common in SE Irian Jay a than elsewhere in its range) . REVIEW "A Field Guide to the Bird Songs of South-East Asia", compiled and edited by Terry White. The British Library National SoundArchive 1984. Price 10 pounds ste_rling (add one pound for addresses outside Britain) from the Curator of Wildlife Sounds, British Library National Sound Archive, 29 Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AS. A number of authors have produced discs or cassettes of bird sounds of the Sunda region, especially in West Malaysia, but this is the first published general sound 44 Kukila 1985 2(2). identification guide. Although not expressly stated , panion to the book of nearly the same name (H 1975) , and applicable to the area covered by that be Asia. However as stated in the preface, many throughout the Oriental region . Out of the 136 spp mainly in Sumatra and Kalimantan (only about 65 iJ ly recorded in Indonesia, most of these in Java by I buf three were made in Sumatra by this reviewer. A casual visitor to the forests of Sumatra and Kalima by the apparent paucity of his observations, which b Forest birding requires determination, patience and also a very useful asset. With experience, more a vocalizations. I have personally succeeded in obse barbet making each of its diagnostic calls, but tlu others I am now sufficiently confident to confirr wherever I go, based entirely on their calls. But r While some species have calls that are immediately i are a great many pitfalls of which the newcomer rna! should make it his aim to personally confirm every 'c through others or from cassettes. In my early years in the region , I remember fooling unintentionally: a tape I sent them for confirmation c winged Babbler Stachyris erythroptera giving a slow song, recorded at very close range . The experts "' trogon. This experience emphasizes the risk of heat context, as it were. Listening to the short high-pitcl Woodpecker Meiglyptes tukki (no. 64) , it occurred and one flycatcher have a very similar call (anothe: bulbul! - see Addendum) . On site one might realu small lower-storey passerine, but this cannot be dete on site, it is very difficult to distinguish the long dra~ Garnet Pitta Pitta granatina (no . 71) from that of which is not represented, the Malaysian Rail Babbl1 however, the compiler has taken care to indicate under no. 111 he notes that Stachyris ruficeps h~ lustrated for the Golden BabblerS. chrysaea. To thi rufifrons! Several of the barbets have two distinct calls, one I other the "trilling" call. Only the trilling call is given Megalaima chrysopogon (49), and the tok-tok call f mystacophanos (51), but the accompanying notes r both species. It is not generally known that the Blue also has its version of the trilling call, which once g; down. Incidentally the frequency with which this ba other recordings reflects a very real situation in th recordist will be aware (cicadas and gibbons are the 1 whine of a mosquito in front of hand-held microp 

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