41G Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Contributions to the 



3. Chrysococcyx basalts (Horsf.) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 62. 

 Not previousl}^ noticed from Sarawak. Mr. Everett's bird 



bears the following label :— " Male. Tagora, Dec. 17, 1877. 

 Eyelids and iris bright red ; bill black.'' 



4. Carpococcyx radiatus (Temm.) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 76. 

 Not previously known from Sarawak. 



5. Batrachostomus stellatus (Gould) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 

 113; Tweeddale, P.Z. S. 1877, p. 436, pi. xlvii. 



An adult specimen in rufous brown dress. Doria also 

 obtained one at Sarawak ; and Lord Tweeddale also possesses 

 an example, collected at Bedi, North-western Borneo, by 

 Mr. Alfred Everett. 



6. Tephrodornis gularis (Rafil.) ; Sliarpc, Cat. B. iii. 

 p. 278. 



An adult bird. 



7. Stoparola thalassoides (Cab.) ; Salvad. /. c. p. 133. 

 An adult example. 



8. Cyornis rufifrons, Wall.; Salvad. t.c. p. 131. 

 Cyornis beccariana, Salvad. t. c. p. 131. 



Mr. Everett has sent a series of this very fine species, 

 which enables me to settle the vexed question regarding the 

 names C. rufifrons and C. beccariana, as I have now before 

 me adult males, an adult female, and a yoving male ; and I 

 can affirm that Count Salvadori's type specimens of C. bec- 

 cariana could not have been quite adult, any more than the 

 type of Mr. Wallace's C rufifrons is. The following is a 

 description of the species in several stages : — 



Adult male. General colour above bright smalt-blue, the 

 crown deep ultramarine, causing the eyebrow and forehead, 

 which are bright smalt-blue, to stand out in bold relief; sca- 

 pulars and median wing-coverts ultramarine, v/ith a slight wash 

 of smalt-blue ; the lesser coverts bright smalt-blue ; greater 

 coverts, primary-coverts, and quills black, edged with ultra- 

 marine; tail-feathers black, all but the outer one on each 

 side externally bright blue, richer ultramarine than the wings, 

 and not so brilliant as the back ; feathers in front of the eye 



