418 Mr. R. B. Sharpens Contributions to the 



rufous lores of his '' female dress." The plumage of the head 

 has been somewhat disarranged in the skinning of the bird, 

 and the loral plumes so placed as to make it appear as if 

 the bird had a rufous forehead ; from the same reason a blue 

 feather appears in the upper throat, which seems to me to 

 have been forced out of position from the cheeks. It was 

 the presence of these blue feathers in the upper throat that 

 induced Mr. "Wallace to describe the chin as " blue-black ; '' 

 but in reality the chin is rufous, and then just below occur 

 these straggling plumes, which, as I think, are due to the 

 preparation of the skins *. That the bird is not quite adult is 

 shown by the fact of the orange tips remaining on some of 

 the wing-coverts ; and the blue is not so bright as in the adult 

 bird. The type of Salvadori's C beccanana must have been 

 in very similar plumage, being nearly in full dress but re- 

 taining the rufous lores of an earlier stage. 



9. Cyoknis unicolor, Blyth. 



Cyornis cyanopolia (Boie) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 132. 



Mr. Blyth has stated that a Bornean example of this species 

 exists in the Leyden Museum ; and the question of the locality 

 is now settled by Mr. Everett, who sends an adult male, 

 a female, and a young individual moulting out of its mottled 

 or Robin-like plumage. I have compared it with specimens 

 from Malacca and the Eastern Himalayas (the latter pre- 

 sented to the Museum by Mr. L. Mandelli), and I find the 

 specimens from all these localities identical. 



10. TiMELiA LEUCOTis, Strickl. ; Gray, Handl. B. i. p. 315, 

 no. 4697. 



Another bird new to Borneo. Compared with Malaccan 

 and Javan examples. 



11. IXIDIA PAROTICALIS, Sp. n. 



/. similis /. cyaniventri, sed major : colore capitis schistaceo, 

 undique saturatiore : plagfi anteoculari triangulari, genis, 



* [The introduction of these erroneous characters into the description 

 of C. rvjifrons, together with the inappropriateness of the name, would, 

 as it seems to us, justify the rejection of Mr. Wallace's title altogether 

 in favour of the next-given name, — Epp.] 



