DUTCH BORNEO EXPEDITION. 245 



202. Trichixus pyrrliopygus. 



Trichixos pyrrhopygus Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167; Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born. p. 224; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 99; Sharpe, Ibis 1889, p. 269. 



An adult male and a female, both collected in March 

 at an altitude of 800 m., in the high forest region on 

 the western slope of the Liang Koeboeng Mountain. — Iris 

 blood-red, bill black, feet flesh-color. — The female looks 

 much like an immature bird, on account of the fulvous 

 markings on front and the sides of head and neck, but 

 in looking over the specimens in the Leyden Museum, I 

 find that the four fulvous- throated birds, which all are 

 marked females, show the same characteristics, so that this 

 might be the really adult stage of the female of this spe- 

 cies. On the other hand I have to state the fact that one 

 of our gray-throated adult birds, collected by Schwaner, is 

 marked » female" on the label. 



This species, which frequents the undergrowth of the 

 high forest and is often seen hopping along the ground, 

 is found in Malacca (Wallace a. o.), in Sumatra (a spec- 

 imen from Padang in Mus, Lugd., collected by S. Muller) 

 and in Borneo. On this latter island it has been recorded 

 from the North and from Sarawak, while the Leyden Mu- 

 seum contains specimens from Pontianak (Diard) and from 

 the Barito Kiver (Schwaner and S. Muller). 



203. Malacopteron magnum. 



Malacopteron magnum Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103; Sharpe, Cat. 



B. Br. Mus. VII, p. 564; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 106; Büttik. 



N. L. M. 1895/6, p. 102. 

 Malacopteron majiis Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 225. 



A large series, obtained at the foot of Mount Kenepai 

 and in the Liang Koeboeng Mountain, 700 — 800 m., where 

 it is a rather common bird, living in the high forest. Also 

 from the Upper Mahakkam. The males are a trifle larger 

 than the females, and have a longer bill. — Iris red, bill 

 blackish, lower mandible horn-color, feet pale grayish blue, 

 soles ochre. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXI. 



