Collection of Birds from Kina Balu. 441 



found the species out of the Himalayas^ where its range is 

 also very limited, extending merely from Nepal to Sikkim. 

 It has not as yet been met with in Tenasserim, the Malayan 

 peninsula, or Sumatra^ and the reappearance of the species 

 in Borneo is rather surprising. 



9. Rhipidura albicollis (V.),; Sharpe, t. c. p. 317. 

 Adult birds, which I cannot separate from Tenasserim 



specimens. This species is new to Borneo, but occurs in a 

 slightly darker form {R. airata, Salvad.) in Sumatra. 



10. Hemichelidon cinereiceps, sp. n. 



Adult male. General colour above reddish brown, inclining 

 to clear chestnut on the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts; lesser wing-covei*ts dusky black, edged with the 

 same colour as the back ; median and greater coverts blackish, 

 edged with pale chestnut; bastard wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills blackish, the first primary and the inner secon- 

 daries edged with pale chestnut ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 with a good deal of chestnut on the inner webs of all but 

 the two centre ones, increasing towards the outer feathers, 

 which are all but entirely chestnut, with a little dusky brown 

 at the ends ; crown of head and hind neck dark ashy grey ; 

 lores whitish with a tawny tinge ; eyelid conspicuously 

 white ; ear-coverts, sides of face, and cheeks dark ashy brown, 

 with a rufous tinge, the ear-coverts streaked with fulvous 

 shaft-lines ; throat entirely white ; sides of neck ashy grey ; 

 fore neck and under surface of body clear tawny rufous, 

 more dingy on the fore neck and breast, the sides of the 

 latter rufous brown ; lower abdomen pure w hite ; sides of 

 body and flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts clear bright 

 tawny rufous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dark rufous 

 brown, the lower ones and the edge of the wing clear tawny ; 

 quills below dusky, rufous along the inner edge. Total 

 length 5 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2*7, tail 1-9, tarsus 0'5. 



This new species differs from H . ferruyinea in having the 

 crown and sides of face dark ashy grey. 



11. RhINOMYIAS RUFICRISSA, sp. n. 



Adult mule. General colour above ruddy brown, more clearly 



