680 TiMEr-ni).5). 



6. Mixornis bornensis. 



Mixornis bornensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 217 ; Homhr. «§■ Jacq. Voy. Pole 

 Stid, Zool. iii. p. 90, pi. 19. fip;. 2 ; >Scl. P. Z. S. 1803, p. 215 ; 

 Walden, Ihis, 1872, pp. 375, 376 ; Sahad. Ucc. Born. p. 215 ; 

 Sharpe,P. Z. S. 1875, p. 105 ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 257. 



Timalia bornensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4721 (1869). 



Adult male. Above deep chestnut, the forehead leaden grey with 

 glossy black shafts, which are also visible on many of the feathers 

 of the crown ; feathers round the eye and on the sides of the 

 face grey, with a slight wash of reddish on the hinder ear-coverts ; 

 throat white, with very broad longitudinal spots of black, collecting 

 on the cheeks and forming there a rather broad streak ; rest of 

 the under surface of body sulphur-yellow, broadly streaked with 

 black on the chest, more narrowly on the breast, the sides of the body 

 greenish with obscure streaks of blackish; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts streaked with reddish brown ; under wing-coverts sulphur- 

 yellow, the outermost streaked with dark brown, the lower series sepia- 

 brown like the inner lining of the quills, these being sepia-brown 

 below with yellowish margins to the inner webs ; wings chestnut 

 like the back, the quills dark brown, externally chestnut, the 

 primaries lighter-edged ; tail black, with wavy cross bars under 

 certain lights, the base of the tail chestnut, with which also aU the 

 feathers are narrowly margined ; bill lead-brown ; orbital space 

 blue; legs red-brown ; iris Naples yellow. Total length 5-6 inches, 

 culmen 0-65, wing 2-3, tail 2'-J:0, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. Borneo. 



a, h. c? ad. sk. Sibu, Sarawak. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Banjermassing. J. Motley, Esq. [C.]. 



d, e,f. Ad. sk. Labuan {H. Low), E. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 



7. Mixornis erythroptera. 



Timalia erythroptera, Blyth, J. A. S. Bemj. xi. p. 794 (1842) ; id. 



op. cit. XV. p. 10 (1846) ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 1846, p. 103 ; Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 150 (1849) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 276; 



Horsf. i^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i, pp. 229, 420 (1854) ; 



mmie, Str. F. 1875, p. 322. 

 Timalia pyrrhopbsea, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 402 ; Bp. Notes Coll. 



Delattre, in C. R. xxxviii. p. 417 (1854). 

 Bracbypteryx acutivostris, Eyton. Ann. S,- Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 228 



(1845) ; Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 4. 

 Timalia pyrrhoptera, Bp. Coasp. i. p. 217 (1850, ex Bote MS. in Mus. 



Lugd.). 

 Timalia acutirostris, Gray, Handr-l. B. i. p. 315, no. 4695. 

 Cyanoderma erythropterum, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 105 ; Tweedd. 



Ibis, 1877, p. 308 ; Himie, Str. F. 1879, pp. 60, 95. 

 Cyanoptera erythroptera, Hume ^- Davis. Str. F. 1878, p. 269. 



Adult male (Sumatra ; A. E. "Wallace). General colour above 

 rufescent brown, a shade brighter on the back ; wing-coverts 



