446 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



38. PycNONOTUs GOiAviER (Scop.) J Grant, Ibis, 1894^ 

 p. 408; 1895, p. 253. 



A pair of this Yellow-vented Bulbnl was obtained in 

 November. 



39. Brachypteryx poliogyna. (Plate XII. fig. 1 [ ? ])• 

 Brachypteryx jmliogyna, Grant, Bull. B. O. C, no. xxviii. 



p. xl (1895). 



In a letter dated the 20th of December, 1894, Mr. White- 

 head informed me that he had obtained the male of a species 

 of Shortwing {Brachypteryx) very similar to the male of the 

 species {B. erythrogyna) he discovered on Mt. Kina Balu ; 

 having only obtained the male, he could not say whether it 

 really differed from the North-Bornean bird, but suggested 

 that it might be distinct. Writing on the 16th of February, 

 he remarked : — '' The female of the Brachypteryx is quite 

 different from the Kina Balu one, the head and throat only 

 being yellowish brown, while the breast is blue, much like 

 that of the male.^^ 



As Mr. Whitehead observes, this species is remarkably 

 different from anything previously known. 



Adult male. Closely resembles the male of B. erythrogrjna, 

 Sharpe, from Kina Balu, but the general colour of the 

 plumage is somewhat darker and less blue. Total length 5"5 

 inches, wing 2*6, tail 1'9, tarsus 1'25. 



Adult female. Crown of the head umber-brown, washed 

 with sienna on the forehead and shading into more olive- 

 brown on the neck ; cheeks, chin, and throat rufous-buff, 

 shading into paler buff on the fore-neck. Rest of the 

 plumage as in the male. Total length 5'4 inches, wing 25, 

 tail 1-75, tarsus 1*2. 



The female of B. erythrogyna is extremely different : the 

 whole of the underparts being rufous-chestnut and the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts reddish brown, like the crown and 

 nape. 



40. Chimarrhornis bicolor, Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 509, 

 pi. XV. fig. 2. 



It Avill be remembered that in the second collection of 



