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This species is exclusively an inhabitant of the lower 

 country. In the Kapoeas- region we never met with it at any 

 considerable elevation above the plain or the bottom of 

 the valleys, nor is any instance known in literature of its 

 occurrance on the hitherto explored mountains of Borneo, 

 except a female stated by Dr. Sharpe (Ibis 1889, p. 205) 

 to be found by Mr. Whitehead »on Kina Balu at 3000 

 feet". 



I have, however, very strong reasons to doubt the identity 

 of the mentioned female from Kina Balu with 5. elegans. 

 Nay, from the synonymy of S. elegans in the Catalogue 

 of Birds we learn that Dr. Sharpe considers the female of 

 this species to have a white loral spot, as the learned 

 author adds to this synonymy Muscicapa cantatrix Temm. 

 PI. Col. Ill, pi. 226, fig. 2 (9) and Cyornis banyumas 

 Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878, p. 615 (9), both having white 

 lores. The first is, however, as is proved by the original 

 specimen still preserved in our Museum, nothing but an 

 immature female of S. banyumas, and the second has 

 afterwards been identified by Mr. Everett (Ibis 1895, p. 

 25) as the female of S. Lemprieri Sharpe. The female 

 in question, from Kina Balu, 3000 feet, very probably 

 belongs to S. coeruleata (Bp.), which is, at least for 

 the basin of the Kapoeas, unquestionably a mountain 

 form, of which I collected females in different stages of 

 plumage, all with more or less distinct rufous or whitish 

 lores. 



The real females of S. elegans (two of them were killed 

 together with their males) have no loral spot at all and 

 can only be distinguished from the males by the want of 

 the blue color on chin and throat, which parts are of a 

 somewhat paler rufous than the chest. They can by no 

 means be distinguished from S. turcosa, which is, in fact, 

 nothing but the female of our S. elegans, a conclusion 

 which gets still more strength by the fact that 5. turcosa 

 is likewise an inhabitant of lower countries and was never 

 found above an elevation of 1000 feet. 



Notes Irom the Leyden ]Museiim, Vol. XXI. 



