3G Mr. A. Roberts on Binh in 



encountered in getting specimens. Some of its notes 

 resemble those of Drifoscopus cuhJa, while the duets can 

 hardly be distinguished from those of L. rufjventris. 



Dryoscopus CUBLA HAMATUs, Hartl. K. 1178«. (lad., 

 2 juv. F.) Resident. 



Ad : I. bright orange ; B. horn-blue, brown at tip ; 

 L. slate-colour. Juv. : I. greenidi brown ; B. max. dark 

 horn, tomia and mand. paler ; L. slate. Leng. 175 ; 

 W. 77-10 ; Tl. G3-G5 ; Ts. 20-21 ; C. 18-19. 



rjommon throughout the prazo. A nest with two fresh 

 eggs was taken at Buruma on 21st October ; it was an open 

 bow-shaped structure of fine roots and grass firm!}' bound 

 tof^ether with cobwebs, and placed in the fork of a branch 

 near the top of a tree. The eggs are white, thickly speckled 

 with slate, red, and red-brown, converging at the thick end 

 so as to form a ring, and measure 21'1 x 1(;*3 and 21*J: x IG'2 

 respectively. 



MaLACONOTUS OLIVACEUS STARKI (W. L. Scl.). R. 1187 h. 



(1 M., 1 F., 1 ?) 



I. golden yellow; B. l)lack ; L. slate-grey. Leng. 250- 

 2G0 ; W. 108-113 ; TI. 101-108 ; Ts. 33-34; V. 28-29. 



Not common anywhere and noted only in the marsh 

 region. 



I once heard one uttering a loud linging note dining the 

 heat of the day, and on another occasion shot one at dusk 

 while it was creeping about in some thick scrub near the 

 ground and uttering a single soft whistle following two 

 sliar[) clicks of the Ix'ak. 



Lanius collurio (Linn.). R. 1213. (1 M.) May. 



Oiilv one specimen was seen and securctl ; it was jx'rc^hed 

 on the dead top of a rubber-tree in the clearing at Villa 

 Rcreira, and I thiidc that it had been delaye<l in its north- 

 ward migrat'on by its strength liaving gixcii out on account 

 of a <|uantity of wireworms wliich wcie found occupying 

 the forehead and base of )»eak. 



