DUTCH BORNEO-EXPEDITION. 195 



Cyornis cyanopolla Blyth, Ibis 1870, p. 165 (ex Boie M. S. in Mus. 



Lngd.); Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 132. 

 Siphia unicolor Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. IV, p. 444 ; Sharpe, Ibis 



1894, p. 542. 



An adult male (N° 983) from the western slope of 

 Mount Liang Koeboeng. — Iris dark brown, bill black, 

 feet purplish. This bird was shot in low bamboo-jungle at 

 an altitude of 850 meter above the sea-level. 



Oates (1. c.) seems to doubt somewhat the identity of 

 the Malay *S. cyanopolia with S. unicolor from the Continent, 

 saying that it is a much brighter bird than *S. unicolor^ 

 but having no specimen from the Continent to compare 

 with our specimens from Java and Borneo, and Sharpe 

 (Ibis 1894, p. 542) identifying a specimen from Mount 

 Mulu with S. unicolar, 1 prefer te follow this latter authority. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas to the Malay Peninsula, Java 

 and Borneo. 



103. Siphia elegans. 



Muscicapa elegans Temm. PI. Col. Ill, pi. 596, fig. 2 (r^) i). 

 Cyornis elegans Walden, Ibis 1872, p. 373; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 



130; Blasius, Verein. Naturw. Braunschw. 1881, p. 34. 

 Siphia elegans Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. IV, p. 447 ; Everett, L. B. 



Born. p. 132; Sharpe, Ibis 1889, p. 205. 

 Cyornis turcosa Brügg. Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem. V, p. 457. 

 Siphia turcosa Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus, IV, p. 453; id. Ibis 1893, 



p. 551; id. id. 1894, p. 421. 



An adult female from Smitau, four males and two females 

 from Nanga Raoen and four specimens from the Sibau 

 River; also from the Upper Mahakkam. Found in bamboo- 

 jungle and brushwood of abandoned native plantations. — 

 Iris dark brown, bill black, feet purplish gray. 



1) Dr. Sharpe, Cat. B. IV, p. 447, mentions Muscicapa cantatrix Q. 

 Temm. PI. Col. Ill, pi. 226, fig. 2, as belonging to the synonymy of iS. e%«««. 

 This is undoubtedly an error, the bird in question, which still makes part of 

 the Leyden collections, being a female in transitional stage of plumage of S. 

 lanyumas (Horsf.) = Muscicapa cantatrix Temm. The pure white lores combined 

 with the red color of the entire lower surface leave no doubt as to its identity 

 with the female of 5. hanyumas. 



Notes from the Leyden JMuseuin, Vol. XXI. 



