Corvidae

Platylophus galericulatus
Crested Jay
Maleise Kuifgaai (Dutch)

ZMA 2352
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Near-Threatened A small brown or blackish jay occurring in low densities in lowland evergreen primary forest of the Malay Peninsula (ssp. ardesiacus), Sumatra and W, S, & C Borneo (ssp. coronatus), N Borneo (ssp. lemprieri), and Java (nominate galericulatus). Much of the primary forest has been destroyed already in this area, and the remainder will be largely gone by 2010 when the present-day rate of cutting continues. The bird seems able to survive in the less-threatened hill and submontane forest, though only in small and scattered subpopulations which may not be viable at long-term.

Items in the ZMA - 6 birds:
ZMA 2352 Unsexed, undated [before 1880], 'Java', Indonesia, old former mount.

ZMA 10768 Female, 21 Jan 1914, Camp 4 (c. 02°50'N, 117°07'E), Kayan River basin, NE Kalimantan, Indonesia, coll. C. Lumholtz, no nr., skin.

ZMA 24833-24834 Unsexed [juvenile & adult], undated [before 1880], [Java], old former mounts.

ZMA 30154 Male, Aug 1918, Gunung Tjisalak [= Cisalak, 06°43'S, 107°45'E; 508 m], W Java, Indonesia, coll. T. Liep, ex Buitenzorg [= Bogor] Museum, in 1923 donated to the Colonial Institute, in 1945 to ZMA, skin.

ZMA 47790 Male, 6 Sep 1936, Wilis Mts. (c. 7°49'S, 111°50''), E Java, Indonesia, collector unknown, ex J.G. van Marle 790, skin.

Remarks
The Javan birds are the blackish nominate galericulatus, but the rufous-brown Bornean bird is intermediate between ssp. coronatus and ssp. lemprieri (see Voous 1961). None of the ZMA collectors obtained a bird on Sumatra (in contrast to Platysmurus, see elsewhere), and P. galericulatus is apparently rare on this island.

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