BirdingASIA 41

Fruit-hunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi, Timpohon Gate, Sabah, Malaysia, March 2023 by Matthew Kwan.

3 BirdingASIA briefings

4 Conservation Fund

13 Letters to the Editors

15 NEW RECORDS
First record of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea in the Philippines
ROBERT O. HUTCHINSON, AMADO BAJARIAS JR, ADRIAN M. CONSTANTINO, JASMIN MEREN, VIRTITO NATURAL JR & MARK JASON VILLA

20 NOTEBOOK
Field survey of newly-described bird: Wangi-Wangi White-eye Zosterops paruhbesar in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
UTAMI LESTARI BUDIAWATI, KUKUH HADI WIYONO & FEBRY RIYAD HENDIYANTO, KENI SULTAN, NUHONI PRASETYO, ROLAN BUDIANTHO, AGUNG WICAKSONO, DARMAN & UNION

27 NOTEBOOK
How distinctive is Cambodia’s Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis blandini?
N. J. COLLAR

34 NEW RECORDS
Salvadori’s Nightjar Caprimulgus pulchellus in the Meratus Mountains: a new species for Borneo? ROBERT O. HUTCHINSON, KHALEB YORDAN & MARK R. BEZUIJEN

37 NOTEBOOK
New sightings of Bornean Ground-cuckoo Carpococcyx radiceus in Brunei, with notes on habitat preferences and association with bearded pigs NATASHA L. M. MANNION, SALWA KHALID, RACHEL GAULTON, JERRY WONG SIA HOW, MARION PFEIFER, J. W. FERRY SLIK, STEPHEN G. WILLIS & T. ULMAR GRAFE

49 LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Immaculate Laughingthrush lanthocincla bieti
JAMES A. EATON

55 CONSERVATION UPDATE
Mannar—a flyway in peril
BHARANI GAYOMINI PANAGODA & SAMPATH S. SENEVIRATNE

64 NEW RECORDS
The first record of Allen’s Gallinule Porphyrio alleni for Asia
KASUN GONAGALA

66 NOTEBOOK
An unexpected migratory stopover of reed- and bush-warblers in a highly urbanised area of Hong Kong
LUN CHEONG WONG

71 NEW RECORDS
First record of Brown-chested Jungle-flycatcher Cyornis brunneatus for Japan
HANS SEMEINS, YANN MUZIKA & GERBEN TER HAAR

73 PHOTOSPOT
Fruit-hunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi
TIM LOSEBY

75 From the field

94 OBITUARY
Ben Frank King 1937–2024
LESLIE A. HOGAN