Collection of Birds from Kina Balu. 453 



and only differing in its more steel-blue upper surface, grey 

 sides of the breast, and clearer yellow under tail-coverts. It is 

 larger than D. celebicum, and is blue instead of purple above. 



Fam. FRINGILLIDiE. 



31. Chlorura hyperythra, Reich.; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia 

 &c. ii. p. 443. 



Adult male. General colour above bright grass-green; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts 

 black, externally green, like the back ; bastard wing and 

 primary-coverts black, fringed with green ; quills black, 

 edged with somewhat lighter green fringes on the primaries, 

 the secondaries externally like the back ; upper tail-coverts 

 like the back ; centre tail-feathers olive-green, with black 

 bases, the remainder black edged with green, the outermost 

 with an ashy greenish spot at the end; forehead black, suc- 

 ceeded by a blue crown, the hinder part of the crown like 

 the back ; lores, eyebrow, feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, throat, fore neck, and breast pale tawny, deeper on 

 the fore neck and breast ; abdomen light ochreous buff, 

 washed with green ; sides of body and flanks light grass- 

 green; thighs and under tail-coverts deeper ochreous buff; 

 nuder wing-coverts and axillaries light tawny buff, like the 

 breast ; qiiills below blackish, ashy rufous along the inner 

 edge. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2'3, tail I'O, 

 middle tail-feathers 1"15, tarsus 0'65. 



The adult female is very similar to the male, but is every- 

 where duller in colour, with less blue on the crown, and the 

 black on the forehead less pronounced. Total length 4"1 

 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2*35, tail 1*2, tarsus 0"65. 



This species was described by Reichenbach as from New 

 Guinea {cf. Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, &c. ii. p. 443) . The two 

 sexes are here described for the first time. 



Fam. EuRYL^MiD^. 

 32. PsARisoMus DALHOusi^, Jamcsou. 

 Psarisomus psittacinus (S. Mull.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 198. 



New to Borneo. Apparently identical to the smallest par- 



