236 BIRDS OF THE 



neau series there is some difference in the shade of the 

 rufous-brown on the lower surface, some specimens being 

 darker, other paler brown, but this difference appears to 

 be quite individual, having nothing to deal with either 

 sex, season or locality. Especially the darker specimens 

 agree extremely well with the types from Sumatra. — Iris 

 brick-red, in some specimens pale yellow, bill black, angle 

 of mouth yellow in a young specimen, feet pale green, 

 soles yellow. — Lives in brushwood and the undergrowth 

 of high forest. 



Hab. This species is known from Sumatra and Borneo, 

 on which latter island it has hitherto been found in the 

 North (Kina Balu) and in the mountainous parts of Sarawak. 



185. Staphidia Everetti. 



Slaphidia everetti Sharpe, Ibis 1887, p. 447; id. id. 1889, p. 281; 

 Everett, L. B. Born. p. 107. 



Ten specimens collected in the forests of Mount Kenepai, 

 at an avarage altitude of 500 — 600 m., while none were 

 obtained in the plain at the foot of the mountain. All the 

 specimens, probably freshly moulted, differ somewhat from 

 the original description and also from one of Mr. White- 

 head's specimens from Kina Balu which is at my disposal, 

 in having the upper tail-coverts olive-gray like the back, 

 instead of brown, while the central tail-feathers are broader 

 and very dark brown or nearly black instead of earthy 

 brown as shown by our Kina Balu specimen. — Iris brown, 

 bill horny gray, feet flesh-color. 



Hab. Restricted to Borneo, where it was discovered by 

 Mr. Whitehead on the Kina Balu and afterwards found 

 by other explorers on the mountains of Sarawak. 



186. Herpornis hrunnesceiis. 



Herpornis brunnescens Sharpe, Ibis 1876, p. 41 ; id. id. 1879, p. 257 ; id. 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. VII, p. 637; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 107; Sharpe, 

 Ibis 1889, p. 281; id. id. 1890, pp. 278, 290, 291 ; id. id. 1893, p. 

 550; id. id. 1894, p. 542. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseuixi, A'ol. XXI. 



