BIRDS FROM NIAS. 167 



»Iris brown, bill blue with horny white tip, toes bluish 

 gray. Native name: Lamoehoe.^' 



This species is the smaller representative of S. leptogram- 

 micum (Temm.) from Borneo, which, on his turn, is a 

 smaller form of S. myrtha (Bp.) from Sumatra. From the 

 Bornean form it is only distinguished by its smaller size, 

 the maroon-brown instead of blackish brown crown and 

 hind-neck , and by the somewhat narrower barrings above 

 and below. The Sumatrau form is much larger than the 

 Bornean and a young bird in down is nearly pure white, 

 whereas in S. leptogrammicum and S. niasense it is ochra- 

 ceous. 



In this species we may state a fact which reminds us 

 Spilornis Salvadorii, which is likewise more closely allied 

 to its Bornean co-species than it is to that from Sumatra. 



*9. Phodilus hadius (Horsf.). 



Three specimens from Goenoeng Sitoli, obtained Janu- 

 ary 12th and 13th. 



Two of them, Nos. 205 and 209, are adult females, the 

 third , N^. 208 , is an immature male with some remnants 

 of down amongst the feathers. These specimens do not differ 

 in any respect from others from Sumatra and Borneo. 



»Iris light brown, bill horny white, toes brownish gray. 

 Native name: Lamoehoe.'^ 



10. Palaeornis fasciata (Mull.). 



Psittacus harhulatus Nieuweuh. & Rosenb. Versl. Eil. Nias , p. 19. 

 Palaeornis javanica Rosenb. Mai. Arch. p. 220. 

 Palaeornis fasciata Salvad. Cat. B. Br. Mus. XX, p. 464 (1891). 

 Palaeornis longicauda Oust. I.e. p. 119. 



Two adult males (Nos. 243 and 244) from Tadora , Fe- 

 bruary 20th and 22nd. 



»Iris white, upper mandible coral-red with yellowish tip, 

 lower mandible black, feet greenish gray. Native name: 



Eh-m:' 



Notes from the Leyden Miaseura , "Vol. XVIII. 



