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Hab. Malacca, Sumatra and Borneo, where it is very 

 widely distributed '). 



104. Siphia coeruleata. 



Schwaneria coeruleata Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 54 (e- 



Temm. M. S.); Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 134. 

 Cyornis rufifrons Wallace, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 476; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 



p. 131; Sharpe, Ibis 1878, p. 416 (partim). 

 Siphia coeruleata Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. IV, p. 451 ; Everett, L. 



B. Born. p. 183. 

 (?) Siphia elegans (part.) Sharpe, Ibis 1889, p. 205 2). 



Six adult males and a nestling of the same sex, and 

 five females in more or less fully developed dress, all 

 obtained in the mountain-forests of the Liang Koeboeng- 

 range, not below 800 meter. — Iris dark brown, bill 

 black, feet in fresh specimens purplish, in dry state pale 

 brown, but by far not so whitish as in our typical specimen. 



This species is allied to S. banyumas, having the lower 

 surface entirely orange rufous, the centre of the abdomen 

 only being white in some specimens, but it difiers from 

 the latter in having the black chin-spot very small and 

 the moustaches dark blue instead of blackish. Much more 

 important than between the males the difference is between 

 the adult females. In S. hanyumas the adult female much 

 resembles the male in color, but is provided with a conspicuous 

 white loral spot and instead of the large black chin-spot 

 and ditto beard-stripes these parts are rufous like the rest 

 of the under surface. The adult female of S. coeruleata 

 agrees with that of S. hanyumas as to the want of a dark 

 chin-spot, but the upper surface is not entirely blue like 

 in the male, but olive-brown, with a darker, more grayish 



1) Dr Sharpe includes Java in ihe geographical distribution of this species, 

 probably on account of a female in the collection of the British Museum, but 

 for the above developed reasons I guess that the specimen in question is an 

 immature female of S. lanyumas. 



2) The female of S elegans mentioned at the quoted place will very likely 

 prove to belong to the present species (see my remarks on this subject antea 

 "ander the head of S. elegans). 



Notes frona the Leyden Museum, ^V^ol. XXI. 



