DUTCH BORNEO-EXPEDITION. 



166. Ixidia Webberi. 



225 



Ixidia squamata (nee Temm.) Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 200; Sharpe, 



Ibis 1878, p. 419. 

 Ixidia Webberi Hume, Str. Feath. VIII, pp.40 and 63(1879); Büttik. 



N. L. M. 1895/6, p. 250. 

 Rubigula. Webberi Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. VI, p. 171; Everett, L. B. 



Born. p. 115. 



Four specimens from Mounts Kenepai and Liang Koe- 

 boeng, where it was found in high forest. — Iris red, bill 

 and feet black. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo (Sarawak 

 and Central Borneo). 



167. Brachypodius melanocephalus. 



Lanius melanocephalus Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 309 (1788). 

 Brachypodius melanocephalus Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XIV, p. 576; 



Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 201; Büttik. N. L. M. 1895/96, p. 251. 

 Micropus melanocephalus Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. VI, p. 65 ; id. 



Ibis 1889, p. 274; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 112. 

 Microtarsus melanocephalus Sharpe, Ibis 1894, p. 422. 



Seven specimens from Mount Kenepai, the Siniai Valley, 

 Nanga Raoen and the Sibau River, and ten specimens from 

 the Upper Mahakkam. — A lowland-species, living in low 

 jungle and in the undergrowth of high forest. — Iris grayish 

 blue, bill black, feet grayish black. 



There is, amongst my specimens, considerable difference 

 in the metallic color of the head, which is steel green in 

 some specimens and glossy purplish blue in others. The 

 two specimens with the glossy green heads are a little 

 larger and paler green than the others. These differences 

 seem to be independaut from sex and locality. A young 

 female has the head green like the rest of the upper surface. 



Hab. From Tenasserim down the Malay Peninsula to 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Labuan. In Borneo it is spread 

 over the whole island. 



168. Microtarsus melanoleucus. 



Microtarsus melanoleucus Eyt. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 102; Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born. p. 202; Büttik. N. L. M. 1895/6, p. 252. 



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