222 BIRDS OF THE 



All adult female from Poelau ; another female, with nest 

 and eggs, from the Upper Sibau River. — Iris fire-red, bill 

 black, feet flesh-color. — The nest is placed in shrubs about 

 three or four feet above the ground and consists of a nice 

 and rather deep cup of rootlets, grass-stems aud broad 

 leaves; its size is about that of a Finch's nest. 



H a b. Tenasserim and Malay Peninsula, Nias, Sumatra 

 and Borneo. 



161. Laeclorusa simplex. 



Pycnonotus simplex Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167; Sbarpe, Cat. B. 



Br. Mus. VI, p. 153; id. Ibis 1889, p. 276; Everett, L. B. Born. 



p. 115. 

 Laedorusa simplex Büttik. N. L. M. 1895/6, p. 240. 



A great series collected at Pontianak, Smitau, Roema 

 Manoeal, Mounts Kenepai aud Liang Koeboeng, in the 

 Sibau valley, and at Long Bloe, Upper Mahakkam. — Iris 

 red, bill black, feet pale brown. — This species is very easily 

 mistaken for lole olivacea from which it can hardly be 

 distinguished in color ; but it is of a considerably smaller 

 size, the bill is much smaller and less stretched, and the 

 iris is red instead of white. 



Hab. From Tenasserim down the Malay Peninsula, Nias, 

 Sumatra, Java and Borneo, where it is distributed over 

 the whole island. 



162. Laeclorusa pusilla. 



Pycnonotus simplex (nee Less.) Bp. Consp. I, p. 263 (ex Kuhl M. S. 



in Mus. Lugd.). 

 Pycnonotus pusillus (nee Blyth) Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 200 (1874); 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. VI, p. 155. 

 Pycnonotus Salvadorii Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. VI, p. 401; Everett, 



L. B. Born. p. 115; Hose, Ibis 1893, p. 391; Sharpe, Ibis 1893, 



pp. 547 and 551. 

 Laedorusa pusilla Büttik. N. L. M. 1895/6, p. 241. 



A great number of specimens from Mounts Kenepai and 

 Liang Koeboeng, from the Sibau River and the Upper 



Notes from the Leyden INXuseuiri, ^ol. X.XI. 



