206 BIRDS OF THE 



Myiolestes oiscurus Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 156. 



Hemipus obscurus Sharpe, Cat. B. Br, Mus. Ill, p. 305; id. Ibis 1889, 

 p. 189. 



Two adult males and a female, all from Smitau, an 

 adult male from Pontianak and three males and a female 

 from the Upper Mahakkam. — Iris dark brown, bill and 

 feet black. 



Hab. Malacca '), Sumatra, Banka and Billitou (speci- 

 mina in Mus. Lugd.), Java and Borneo, where it is spread 

 throughout the island. 



122. Hemipus picatus. 



Muscicapa picata Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 85. 



Hemipus intermedius Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. XIV (1879), p. 209 

 (üccelli di Sumatra); Büttik. N.L.M. 1887, p. 51. 



Hemipus picatus Sharpe, Ibis 1889, p. 189; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 

 123; Oates, Faun. Br. lad. Birds, I, p. 471; Sharpe, Ibis 1892, 

 p. 434; id. id. 1893, p. 551; id. id. 1894, p. 543. 



Hemipus capitalis Hose, Ibis 1893, p. 395. 



An immature male and two females obtained on the 

 western slope of Mount Liang Koeboeng, at an altitude of 

 870 meter. — Iris dark brown, bill black, feet leaden gray. 

 Living in the undergrowth of the virgin forest. 



Hab. From South India and Ceylon eastwards through 

 Burma and Tenasserim to Siam and Cochin China, Su- 

 matra and Borneo. On the latter island it has been dis- 

 covered by Mr. Whitehead on Mount Kina Balu, and was 

 afterwards also found on Mount Dulit and Mount Mulu 

 by Mr. Ch, Hose, and on Mount Penriseu and Mount Poeh 

 by Mr. A. H. Everett. 



The immature male is still wearing the plumage of the 

 young bird, which does not differ from that of the female, 

 but here and there on the brown head and back can be 

 seen some beginnings of the glossy black plumage of the 

 adult male. The rump in the male and both females is 



1) According to Dr. Sharpe (1. c.) this species is found as far north as 

 Tenasserim, but Mr. Oates, Fauna of Brit. India Birds, Vol. I, p. 473, be- 

 lieves that it does not range farther north than Malacca. 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseuna, Vol. XXI. 



