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A male and a female from Poetoes Sibau and Mount 

 Liang Koeboeng, and three males and two females from 

 the Upper Mahakkam (Dr. Nieuwenhuis, winter 1898 — 99). 



Iris of the male reddish brown, upper mandible brown, 

 lower mandible yellow, feet grayish green, of the female 

 iris ochraceous, upper mandible gray, lower mandible whitish, 

 feet gray. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula and the Sunda Islands. 



30. Hemicercus sordidus. 



Dendropicits sordidus Eyt. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. XVI, p. 229 (1845). 

 Hemicercus concretus Bp. Consp. I, p. 129; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 47. 

 Hemicercus sordidus Balvad. Ucc. Born. p. 46; Everett, L. B. Born, 

 p. 155; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 7. 



Five specimens from Pontianak, Smitau, Roema Manoeal, 

 Poetoes Sibau (Nieuwenhuis) and Poelau, and three spe- 

 cimens from the Upper Mahakkam. 



Iris reddish brown, bare space round the eye ashy gray, 

 bill black, feet dark gray. — Contents of stomach : small 

 white ants, 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Banka and Borneo, 

 where it is generally distributed. 



A probably not quite adult male from Smitau has the 

 feathers of the flanks conspicuously tipped with fulvous. 



31. Lepocestes porphyromelas. 



Pious porphyromelas Boie, Briefe geschr. aus Ostind. p. 143 (1832). 

 Lepocestes porphyromelas Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 48; Everett, L. B. 

 Born. p. 155; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 7. 



A male and three females from Mount Kenepai, a female 

 from Mount Liang Koeboeng, and a male from the Mahak- 

 kam River. — Iris blood-red, bill yellow, feet dark gray. 



Hab. From Tenasserim through the Malay Peninsula to 

 Sumatra and Borneo, where it is found throughout the island, 



32. Gecinus puniceiis. 



Picus puniceus Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 176 (1822). 

 Notes from the Ley den MLuseum, "\'ol. XXI. 



