366 Viscaunt Waldt-n on a 



verus, ap. Malh. (Monogr. ii. p. 10) ; and a Banjarmassing spe- 

 cimen displays the same characters. The first, although marked 

 a male, wants the usual red cheek-stripes ; the Soath-Bornean 

 bird displays only traces of red feathers on the cheeks. Ma- 

 laccan examples frequently exhibit one or other of the pecu- 

 liarities insisted upon by Malherbe as being characteristic of 

 M. tristis (Horsf.), notably the dark breast and under surface 

 generally. All the individuals with the under surface coloured 

 fulvous, with brown cross bands, Malherbe has separated under 

 the title of P. yrammithorax {torn. cit. p. 13). That author, 

 however, admits that it is impossible to indicate with precision 

 the separate localities they inhabit. The Marup specimens are 

 in the plumage of P . grammithorax, and they do not differ from 

 some Malaccan and Sumatran examples. The probabilities are 

 that the dark-breasted individuals, M. tristis (Horsf.), are birds 

 not arrived at maturity, and that when in adult plumage they 

 assume the garb which induced Malherbe to regard them as 

 belonging to a distinct species, P . grammithorax^ . 



Centrococcyx EURYCEiicus (A. Hay), J. A. S. B. xiv. j). 551, 

 "Malacca" (1845). 



Cuculus bubutus, Horsf. apud Raffles^ Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 286, 

 " Sumatra." 



Centropus bomeensis, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 5 (1854). 



"Marup, ?, iris crimson." 



Prince Bonaparte (/. c.) separated the large Bornean Crow 

 Pheasant; but this example agrees so closely with Malaccan and 

 Sumatran individuals that I cannot recognize its specific di- 

 stinction. C eurycercus can always be distinguished from the 

 continental C. rufipennis, Illiger, by its larger size, by the tail of 

 the full-plumaged bird (?) being blue and not green, and by the 

 interscapularij region of the bdck being coloured like the wings. 

 Even in young birds with striated plumage, this part of the back 

 will be found to have some rufous feathers. I have not been 



* This view is supported by the fact, above mentioned, that the Simun- 

 jon male wants the usual red cheek-stripes. Mr. Everett's notes of the 

 sexes throughout his collection appear to have been made with scrupulous 

 accuracj'. 



