50 ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 



Bhringa remifer , Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br, Mus. Vol. III. p. 257 (1877); 



— Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 14. 



Dicrurus remi/er , Snelleman, Sum. Exp. Vogels, p. 42 (1884). 



5 specimens. 

 »Iris red, bill aud feet black. 'Nsiiive name: Saiveh itam.'^ 



96. Dissemurus p latum s. 



Dicrurus platurus, Vieill. N. D. IX. p. 588 (1817). 



Edolius retifer, Temm. P. C. III. 1823 (together with E. remifer) 



(partim). 

 Edolius hrachyphorus , Bp. (apud Temm.) Consp. Av. I. p. 351 (1850); 



— Schl. Handl. Dierk. p. 479 (Vog. pi. 2, fig. 24) (1857).^ 

 Dissemurus hrachyphorus, Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 154 (1874). 

 Dissemurus platurus, Tweedd. Ibis 1877, p. 313;— Salvad. Ucc. di 



Sumatra, p. 208 (1879); — Nicholson, Ibis 1882, p. 67. 

 Dicrurus paradiseus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. III. p. 258 (1877); 



— Snelleman, Sum. Exp. Vogels, p. 42 (1884). 



37 specimens. 



»Iris vermilion, bill and feet black. Native name: Sa- 

 well itam.^' 



Before I received this large collection I had, according 

 to the view of Salvadori , Tweeddale and others , the Bor- 

 nean specimens separated from the Suraatran under the 

 name of D. hrachyphorus. Lord Tweeddale (Ibis 1877 , p. 

 315) says about the distinctness of both: » Count Salvadori 

 somewhat doubts the propriety of separating the Bornean 

 from the Malaccan Dissemurus ; but the much smaller 

 spatulate termiuation of the outer pair of rectrices seems 

 to be a constant character in the adults of the Bornean 

 species ; and I have examined a very large series , both at 

 Leiden and in my own collection , from Labuan , Sarawak 

 and Banjarmassing." 



In fact, a comparison of the specimens standing in our 

 Museum before the arrival of Dr. Klaesi's collection was 

 able to support this view. Though the difference between 

 the largest spatule in Bornean examples and the smallest 

 in Sumatran would not signify much , it could not be 

 denied and was to be considered a distinguishing character. 



Notes from tlie Ley den Mluseum, "Vol. IX. 



