FROM WESTERN SUMATRA. 45 



Though our Museum contained already three beautiful 

 specimens from Sumatra (Kubang) collected by Horner, I 

 cannot find that this species is hitherto mentioned in lite- 

 rature as to be found in this Island. 



81. Niltava grandis. 



Chaitaris grandis, Blyth , J. A. S. B. XI, p. 189; XII, p. 940. 

 Niltava grandis, Gray, Gen. B. I. p. 264; — Ramsay , P. Z. S. 1880, 

 p. 14. 



2 specimens (cTcf, ad. et jun.). 

 »Iris dark brown, bill and feet black." 

 The younger male differs from the adult in having the 

 whole 'plumage intermixed with ochraceous-tipped feathers. 



82. Alseona.v latir ostris. 



Mtiscicapa latirostris, Raffl. t. c. p. 312. 



Museicapa cinereo-alba , Temm. & Schl. Faun. Jap. p. 42 , pi. 15 (1850). 

 Alseonax latirostris, Cab. Mus. Hein. I, p. 52 (1850); — Salvad. 

 Ucc. di Borneo, p. 129. 



1 specimen (unsexed). 



»Iris dark brown, bill black, base dirty orange-yellow, 

 feet black. Native name: Bubik.^^ 



Perfectly according to the above cited plate in the Fauna 

 Japonica. 



83. St oparola thalassinoides. 



Glaucomyias thalassoides , Cab. Mus. Hein. I, p. 53 (note) (1850). 

 Stoparola thalassinoides, Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 132 (1874). 



1 specimen (cT). 



))Iris blue, bill and feet black." 



84. Terpsiphone af finis. 



Tchitrea affinis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. XV, p. 292. 



Tsciiitraea Paradisii, Schl. Dierentuin, p. 147, with fig. (1872). 



Terpsiphone affinis, Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 137 (1874), 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. IX. 



