Collection of Birds from Kina Balu. 449 



This species is evidently closely allied to Mixornis caga- 

 yanensis of Guillemard (P. Z. S. 1885^ p. 419), but differs, 

 apparently, in its yellow under wing-coverts. The plate of 

 the latter (pi. xxv.) is very inaccurate, scarcely a single 

 character mentioned by Dr. Guillemard being visible in the 

 figure. 



22. Stachyris borneensis, sp. n. 



Adult male. General colour above dark olive-brown, a little 

 more rufescent on the upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky brown, 

 edged with the same colour as the back, a little more fulves- 

 cent on the outer ones ; bastard wing and primary-coverts 

 blue, like the rest of the wing-coverts ; quills dusky brown, 

 edged with reddish brown, inclining to olive-brown towards 

 the base of the outer webs ; upper tail-coverts more rufous 

 brown than the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, rufous 

 brown on the edges, with dusky cross-markings under certain 

 lights ; crown of head dusky olive-brown, streaked with 

 hoary-grey edges to the feathers, producing a striped appear- 

 ance towards the forehead; along the sides of the crown a 

 broad streak of black, followed by a greyish eyebroAV, which 

 becomes paler posteriorly, the hinder part of the black band 

 being skirted by hoary streaks ; lores dull ashy ; feathers in 

 front of and round the eye blackish ; ear-coverts dusky 

 brown, the fore part blackish, as well as a streak below the 

 eye ; throat and cheeks blackish, washed with ashy, with a 

 broad white streak on the fore part of the cheeks ; sides of 

 neck and under surface of body ochreous buff, with paler 

 shaft-streaks ; abdomen light ashy ; sides of body and flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts brown, with an ochreous tinge ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries ochreous brown, the edge of 

 the wing ashy; quill below dusky, edged with ochreous 

 brown on the inner edge. Total length 5 '3 inches, culmen 

 0"7, wing 2"5, tail 2'25, tarsus 0"85. 



Differs from S. nigriceps in having a black bill, grey (not 

 white) eyelid, and in having the head more uniform brown, 

 less streaked w ith hoary grey. 



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