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145. Arachnothera modesta. 



Anthreptes modesta Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105. 

 Arachnothera modesta Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 183; Biittik. N. L. M. 

 1887, p. 57; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 137. 



Three specimens from Pontianak and Mount Kenepai. — 

 Iris brown, bill brown, lower mandible horny, feet flesh-color. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra (Mus. liUgd., see my 

 above-quoted comparative note on A. modesta and A. af- 

 Jinis) and Borneo. 



146. Arachnothera Everetti. 



Arachnothera modesta Sharpe, Ibis 1889, p. 425. 

 Arachnoraphis Everetti Sharpe, Ibis 1893, p. 561; Whitehead, Ibis 

 1894, p. 316. 



An adult female from the Liang Koeboeng range and an 

 adult male from the Upper Mahakkam, collected by Dr. Nieu- 

 wenhuis in January 1899. — Iris brown, bill black, lower 

 mandible horny, feet flesh -color. 



Hab. Mountain regions of Borneo: Kina Balu (White- 

 head), Mount Penrisen (A. H. Everett) and the two above- 

 mentioned localities. 



This species stands between A. modesta and the Java- 

 nese A. afjinis. With the first it agrees in the olive-green 

 (not golden green) tinge on the upper surface, and with 

 the latter in showing the dark shaft-streaks more distinctly 

 and extending also over the abdomen, and in being larger 

 than A. modesta. The single specimen obtained on the 

 Liang Koeboeng agrees fairly well with a specimen from 

 the Kina Balu in the Leyden Museum but is somewhat 

 less strongly striped and somewhat smaller. It must be 

 observed, however, that the size is not very constant in 

 either of these species, and that the stronger shaft- 

 streaks do not hold well in all the specimens of the 

 present species, so that the validity of this species seems 

 somewhat doubtful. According to Mr. Whitehead (1. c.) the 

 specimens from the Kina Balu, enumerated by Sharpe in 



JSotes from the Leyden ÜMuseum, A^ol. XXI. 



