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BIRDS OF THE 



males collected in the above mentioned localities there is 

 not a single one in fully mature dress, all having wings 

 and tail chestnut and breast and abdomen white with a 

 tinge of fulvous. There are, however, specimens amongst 

 them with some blue feathers in the wings and on the 

 lower back and abdomen, and I should say, from this fact, 

 that the fully blue dress of the adult male is only assu- 

 med in the dry season, which, in the Kapoeas basin, be- 

 gins about May. On the other hand I am obliged to state 

 that a specimen obtained on January 29^^ has just as 

 much blue in the wing as others which were shot in April, 

 and a male obtained on May lOt^i has no blue on the wings 

 at all. It is rather incomprehensible that amongst the many 

 males their would only immature specimens be obtained. 

 Strange enough Mr. Oates (Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, II, p. 43) 

 does not mention the entirely blue dress of the adult male 

 at all. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 



113. Philentoma velatum. 



Drymophila velata Temm. PI. Col. 334 (/) (1825). 

 Philentoma velatum Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 139; Everett, L. B. Born. 

 p. 130. 



Twelve specimens from the forests of Mount Kenepai, 

 Nanga Raoen and the western slope of the Liang Koe- 

 boeng, also two specimens from the Upper Mahakkam. 

 A young female (N°. 1123), shot together with an adult 

 male on April 25tli, in the forest of the Liang Koeboeng, 

 probably not many days after having left the nest, is 

 quite different from the adult birds in color. The whole 

 plumage, with the exception of wings and tail, is chest- 

 nut-brown, yieldiug to maroon on the upper surface, espe- 

 cially on the head, but much lighter than the throat in 

 the adult male. Wings and tail, which have not yet attained 

 their full size, are of the same color as in the adult birds, 

 but the scapularies and all the upper wing-coverts are 

 brown like the back. The change of color seems to be 



Notes from tlie Leyden ^luseum. Vol. XXI. 



