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collected by Schwaner in South Borneo and registered as 

 a young male of M. cyaneus (Horsf.) is a little larger than 

 the adult male. 



This species was found near my above-mentioned sta- 

 tion (784 m. above the level of the sea), at the foot of 

 the high rocks which bear the top-plateau of the moun- 

 tain and over which are dashing down a great number 

 of waterfalls. Along the small rivulets fed by the water- 

 falls and running through the high forest which covers 

 the slope of the mountain, the birds were found running 

 up and down the rocky banks or frequenting the thick 

 underwood, uttering some soft, melodious notes and scratch- 

 ing the ground and turning over dead leaves and other 

 decaying matter in search for insects and small molluscs. 

 In a narrow hole of the perpendicular rock near the sta- 

 tion, about five feet from the ground, we found a nest of 

 this species, and having shot the male, we a few days 

 afterwards took the female, which had not stopped breeding, 

 with nest and eggs during night-time. The nest forms a 

 rather thick and solid construction of moss, and the cup 

 is neatly lined with black rootlets and a few dead leaves, 

 no mud being used in the whole nest. The length of the 

 rather deep cup is 10, the width 8 cm., while the diameter 

 of the whole nest is about 17. Directly behind this nest 

 and even connected with it we found two empty and pro- 

 bably old ones of the same size and construction. The hole 

 being rather narrow and deep, I only succeeded in getting 

 the two foremost, which are now, together with the eggs, 

 in the Leyden Museum. 



The two eggs — I had in vain waited for more before 

 capturing the female — are rather long, slender and 

 conical, their color is white with numerous minute pale 

 reddish puuctulations, which are rather more concentrated 

 round the thicker pole. Louger axis 4 cm., shorter 2,2. 



From the fact that the two eggs already contained fairly 

 developed young birds, and that during a weeks waiting 

 no new eggs were laid, considering further that Charles 



Notes froixi the Lieyden ^VIuseuEu, "Vol. XX.I. 



