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notoriously uiirclialilc witli his localities, a fault greatly dm' to the carelessness and 

 eredidity ol' his cust()mers, for he himself never pretended to he a scientilie man. 

 Tlie importance of exact localities was not fully understood in his time ; his 

 {geographical knowledge was very poor, and the old|ha1)it — practised, among others, 

 liy the equally unreliable Verreaux, who, however, did pretend to he a scientific 

 man — to label a siieeimen with the locality it was first described from, was good 

 enough for Whitely. An instance of wrong locality on a label of Whitely is this 

 fly-catcher with the unfortunate name sumnticnsix. It never came from Sumatra, 

 bnt is an unmistakable JIalaccan trade-skin, as they were exported for about half 

 a century from Malacca-town for millinery purposes. They are tilled witli raw 

 cotton, the breast comes out well, wings far np towards the head, the legs jmsheil 

 in far, but the feet generally free. These skins were collected all in the southern 

 Malay Peninsula. I have handled such skins by the thousand, and have picked 

 out many a useful bird from such IFalacca-boxes, and I can never mistake such a 

 skin. The late H. Whitely used to jiurehase many of these trade-skins, and they 

 formed a considerable portion of his stock. The original locality of " Siphia 

 sinnafrensis " is therefore Malacca !). 



" S " ad. Snngei Lebeh, 15. v. lOOl. 



Description : Above blue, slightly darker on tlio head, forehead and line 

 above and to the end of the eye light and bright blue. Lores and narrow line on 

 chin, extending under the gape to the sides of the head, black ; ear-coverts dull 

 blue-black. Throat and foreueck to chest orange-rufous, sides of chest and ujiper 

 breast blue, rest of underside and under tail-coverts white. Under wing-coverts 

 greyish white, quills blackish brown, outer aspect blue, the upper wing-coverts 

 being blue and outer webs of the quills margined with blue. Tail blue above, 

 blackish below. Bill black, legs dark, soles of feet light. 



Wings 70 mm., tail oOl, bill from forehead 14, metatarsus l!S. 



C. stimatrensis dift'ers from the whole dai/i/iimax gronj) at a glance in its white 

 abdomen aud much smaller size. It is ajiparently nearest related to C. tic/telliae, 

 but the abdomen is purer white, the wing about ■■> mm. shorter. Apparently the 

 feet are blackish, not brownish flesh-colour. 



Theye/«(//fc' of C. stimatrensis is not yet known. 



The discovery of ('. siimatrensis in Pahang is of great interest. It confirms 

 this species, which hitherto rested on a single skin, and corrects its " habitat." 



I have carefully conipareil tlie specimen from Snngei Lebeh with the type of 

 aS'. sumatrensis in the British Museum, and have I'ound it to agree perfectly. 



8-3. Cyornis elegans (Temm.). 

 Afitscirapa elrgnns Temm., PI. Cn/. ."iixi. f. 2, 183<) (Sumatra). 

 Obtaini'd in flie Pahang lowlands by Waterstradt's native hunters. 



84. Cyornis unicolor infuscata (Blyth). 



[Ci/oi-m's itnicolor Pdyth, Jonrn. As. ■'^oc. Benq. xii. (1843) j). InOT 

 ("Darjeeling").] 



Cyornis ci/anopolia Rlyth (ox Roic, MS. in Mus. Lugd.) ; /i/,5. 18T0. p. 1(>5 

 (" Sumatra, Java, Borneo "), descr. milla I 



" Afitscicapa infuscata Miiller" Blyth, fbis 1870. ]i. It!.") (? of ('. cijaiwpoVtn — 

 descr. satis accurata). 



