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24. RnopoTiYiTs. 389 



3. Rhopodytes elongatus. 



Phccnicopliaus elonf^atus, .S. MitU. Tijilnckr. Nat. Gesch. 1835, p. 342, 

 pi. 9. fig. 1 ; id. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Vollcenk. 1839, p. 234, 

 note ; Snelleman in Veth's Midden-Sumatra, Vor/. 1884, p. 34. 



Zanclistomus elongatus, Grai/, Gen. B. iii. 1849, App. p. 23. 



Zanclostonnis tristit<, Bp. (nee Less.) Conap. i. 1850, p. 99, part. : Si-l, 

 1\ Z. S. 18(33, p. 208. 



Melias eloiifratu.9, Bj). Coiisp. Vol. Zj/fjod. 1854, p. 5. 



Rhopodytes elongatus, Cab. i,- Heiiu'. Mi/s. Jlein. iv. p. 03 (18G2; ; 

 Sali-a'd. Ucc. Borneo, 1874, p. 70; Biittikofer, Notes Leyden Miis. 

 1886, p. .30. 



Phoenicophaes elongatus, ScM. Mus. P.-B. CucuH, 1864, p. 56. 



Adult male. Crown and back of the neck leaden grey, with 

 narrow black elongated shaft-stripes, passing on the back into slaty 

 grey slightly glossed with green ; wings and tail bright glos.sy 

 green, slightly bluer on the quills ; tail-feathers with broad white 

 ends ; a bare ophthalmic patch rugose and of a red colour, sur- 

 rounded above and below by white feathers and in front by black 

 ones ; chin white, passing into ashy on the throat and chest, which 

 latter inclines to buff down the centre ; lower breast and sides of 

 the body slaty grey, darkest towards the abdomen and thighs, and 

 shaded with glossy green on the under tail-coverts ; under surface 

 of the wings blue-black. Total length 22 inches, culmeu 1-3, 

 wing 5"7, tail 16, tarsus 1*35. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 19"7 inches, ciilmen 1-3, wing 5-7, tail 14, tarsus 1'35. 



Yery similar to B. tristis, but differing in having a less amount 

 of stripes on the forehead, crown, and throat, and a stronger wash 

 of yellow on the lower throat and chest. 



Hab. Sumatra. 



a. $ ad. st. : d. Ad. sk. Sumatra. Purchased. 



c-k. Ad. .sk. Sumntra. (Carl Bock). Tweeddale Coll. 



/. Skeleton. Sumatra. Purchased. 



4. Ehopodytes borneensis. 



Melias borneensis, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyejod. p. o (1854). 



Rhopodytes borneensis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 604 ; Salvad. ZIcc. 

 Borneo, p. 72 (1874); S/iarpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 792; Blasius, 

 J. f. 0. 1882, p. 240 ; Everett, Joiirn. Straits Branch R. A.nat. Soc. 

 1889, p. 174. 



Adult male. Very similar to R. elongatus, but much smaller, and 

 differing in the white eyebrow being extremely narrow and not 

 reaching forward to the forehead ; lower throat, centre of breast, 

 and abdomen brownish buff. Total length 13-4 inche-s, culmen 1-2, 

 wing .5, tail 8-2, tarsus 1-3. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 12-7 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 4-8, tail 7'0, tarsus 12. 

 • Hah. Borneo. 



a. Ad. sk. Borneo. Purchased. 



6. Ad. sk. Lawas River, Borneo. H. Veitch, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Sarawak, Borneo (IT. Everett). Seebohm Coll. 



