is devoted to an elaborate memoir on the birds of Borneo, prepared by the well-known ornithologist, Tommaso Salvadori, of the Museum of Turin. The work is based upon the rich collections made by ...

In the lush, lowland rainforests on the island of Borneo lives a rather common, drab brown bird called the Cream-vented Bulbul, or Pycnonotus simplex. This bird is found from southern Thailand to ...

The Birds of Borneo. By Bertram E. Smythies — This is a very unusual bird book. The main body of the work (about 460 pages) consists of a detailed systematic account of all the 549 species of ...

Scientists surveying the birdlife of Borneo have discovered a startling surprise: an undescribed species of bird, which has been named the spectacled flowerpecker. While scientists and ...