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NEST AND EGGS OF MICR0PU8 SUBFUBCATUS (Bltth). 



By ERNST HAETERT. 



Ci/pselus subfurcatus Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., xviii., p. 807 (1849). 



Jfici-opus suhjurcatus Hartert, Cnt. B., xvi., p. 436 (1892). 



A nest from Knching, Sarawak, Borneo, containing two eggs, was sent to tliis 

 Museum by Mr. Bartlett, with the following note : " Nest, two eggs, and mal- bird 

 taken same time, Knching, March ISth, 1892." 



The nest, which ai)i)areutly was attached to a mck, is enormous, measuring on 

 its straight side, where it was fixed to the rock (? or building), (juite 9 inches, and 

 ()'8 inches across, with a deep hollow place for tlie eggs near the hind-side. The nest 

 consists chiefly of vegetable silk and cotton and various feathers, with some leaves, 

 twigs, and other things here and there, all agglutinated ^v^tll the bird's saliva and 

 forming one hard mass, a little smoother on the upper surface, but hardly softer 

 where the eggs are placed. Among the feathers those of a Pericrocotus, an 

 Osmotreron, a Chloropsis, an owl, and the bird's own feathers are recognizable from 

 outside. 



The two eggs are elli])tic!il ovate, only little more pointed on one end, of the 

 dead white, glossless colour common to all swifts' eggs, measuring 21'0: 15'2 and 

 22 : 1 5'2 mm. 



ON TWO NEW VENEZUELAN BIRDS. 



Bv ERNST HARTERT. 

 (PL XV.) 



1. Dysithamnus tucuyensi? sj). nov. 

 (PI. XV., fig. 1.) 



Dysithamnus mari I), leucosikii Scl. ex Eqnatoria similis, sed gnla grisea, 

 albostriata (nee atra), pileo nigro variegato. Al. 2-81 inches, caud. 2-2, tars. 0-9, 

 cnlm. 0-65. 



One specimen only was sent from the hills near Bncarito, in the state of 

 Tncnyo, Venezuela. It is no doubt a male, but api)arently not perfectly adult, as it 

 shows signs of immaturity. It does not belong to any of the hitherto described 

 species, and is nearest to the old male of i). leucostictus Scl. {P. Z. S., 1858, pp. 63 

 and 223, pi. 190). Sclater, however, described the female only, while Taczauowski 

 and Bcrk'psch (P. Z. S., 1885, p. 99) described the adnlt male, which is slate-colour 

 above, at the same time showing that the rufescent brown bird described by Sclater 

 is the fe?mle. Sclater, in Cat. B., xv., p. 224 (1890), again only described the 

 female, not mentioning the colour of the male. 



