DUTCH BORNEO-EXPEDITION, 155 



brown, bill pale blue, feet gray. The specimen is in full 

 down of a pale bay color, while the quills and tail-feathers 

 are showing the barred appearance of the adult stage. — 

 Contents of stomach : Spiders (von Berchtold). 

 Hab. Borneo. 



12. Phodihis hadius. 



Stria; hadia Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 139 (1822). 



Phodilus hadius Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 21; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 178. 



An adult male from Poetoes Sibau, and a female from 

 Long Bloe (Upper Mahakkam). — Iris brown, bill yellowish 

 white, cere rosy white, feet pale flesh-color. — Contents 

 of stomach: remnants of a large nocturnal butterfly (von 

 Berchtold). 



Hab. Ceylon, and from the Eastern Himalayas through 

 Burmah and the Malay Peninsula to Nias, Sumatra, Java 

 and Borneo. 



13. Glaucidium sylvaticum. 

 Plate 13. 



Athene sylvatica Bp. Consp. I, p. 40 (Type in Mus. Lugd.), 1850. 

 Glaucidium sylvaticum Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. II, p. 215; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, XIV, p. 174 (1879). 

 Glaucidium horneense Sharpe, Ibis 1893, p. 549 (Mount Kalulong), 



p. 562 (Kina Balu). 



An adult male from Mount Liang Koeboeng (780 m. 

 above the level of the sea). — Iris sulphur-yellow, bill and 

 feet greenish yellow. 



This rare and interesting species, probably a true mount- 

 ain-form, was until lately only known from the typical speci- 

 men, collected by S. Muller, and two others, collected by 

 Beccari in 1878, all three on the slopes of Mount Singa- 

 lang, Western Sumatra, There is not the least difference 

 to be found between this Bornean specimen and the type, 

 neither in size nor in color, and a comparison of Dr. Sharpe's 

 above quoted description of G. borneensis convinced me 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXI. 



