84 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
of the Royal Institution of that borough.” [This latter collection is now 
dispersed ; part having gone to America, part to the Nottingham 
Museum, and part to the Borough Museum of Bootle.} | Then follows 
the description of those new species, and among them that of “ I. 
murind, S. Miiller, ns.” The specimen which Blyth there described is 
still in the collection here, and has on its label in, what there can be no doubt 
is, Miiller’s own handwriting :—“ Myiothera imurina, nova species, Miill., 
Java” ; while on the stand—the specimen being mounted—there is inscribed 
in Blyth’s hand, Yurdinus murina. The Type in question was acquired by 
Lord Derby from the Leyden Museum, or trom Temminck, in 1846, through 
* the well-known dealer, Leadbeater, along with many other specimens of 
Miiller’s. The reverse of Miiller’s original label bears the words :— 
“ Temminck, Per Leadbeater, Deer. 1846. Length 44 in. Extent 6 in.” 
Blyth in his paper (in the 1865 “Ibis”) errs, however, in giving the 
locality “ Sumatra ” instead of “Java” as the label indicates. The habitat 
recorded by Temminck (Plan. Col. ii., plate 107 [No. 448] fig. 2; 1827) for 
Myiothera epilepidota is Java and Sumatra. Dr. Sharpe, however, by a slip of 
the pen (Cat. B. vii., p. 540) in quoting from Salvadori (Ucc. Born., p. 224, 
1874) has written “ Borneo,” instead of “ Sumatra.” 
Much of the confusion in connection with this species has arisen chiefly 
from Blyth’s having applied the MS. name of JJyiotheru murina to two totally 
distinct species : first, to that now recognised as Z'urdinulus epilepidota (Temm.), 
and, next, to Crateroscelis murina (Sclater), from New Guinea, the only bird in 
the Leyden Museum which Dr. Sharpe could find bearing the name JJyiothera 
murina in Miiller’s handwriting ; and also from its having been assumed that 
Blyth took his name “ ex. Miill. MS. in Mus. Lugd,” (Sharpe, Cat. B. vii., 
p- 593), instead of in Mus. Derb. apud Liverpool. 
The Derby Museum now possesses a specimen (¢r JJus. Tristr.) of Tur- 
dinulus exul, one of Everett’s collecting from 4,800 feet on Mt. Poeh in Borneo, 
which agrees with the Type collected by Whitehead on Kina Balu, described 
by Sharpe (“ Ibis,” 1888, p. 479), and recognised by Grant in the revision of 
the genns (“Ibis,” tom. et loc. supra cit.). The latter author distinguishes 
T. cpilepidotus from T. exrul, by its having “the underparts reddish-brown with 
wide white shaft-stripes,” and in the “clearly defined” superciliary stripes 
“white or whitish-buff.” In comparing our Type of Blyth’s MWyothera murina 
with 7’. exul, Sharpe, it seems impossible to separate them from each other by 
Mr. Grant’s key. Our 7’. erul has, if not wider, at least as wide shaft-stripes 
as Blyth’s MW. murinus ; while its superciliary stripes are as wide and clearly 
defined ; they are, however, more buff. 7. erul is in general appearance dis- 
tinctly more rufescent than JZ. murinus ; but it must be recollected that the 
latter has been mounted and exposed to the light in a gallery for over half a 
century. 
On again (July, 1898) carefully comparing (with the kind aid of Dr. 
Sharpe) our example of 7’ eu! with specimens in the British Museum, it was 
found that it agreed with the Type and other specimens from Borneo; but 
differed from a Javan specimen, collected by Vordermann on “ Mount Jedeh ” 
(lege Gedeh, in West Java), in the characters indicated by Grant, who says, 
in his Paper already quoted, that Vordermann’s bird “exactly agrees with 
Dr. Sharpe’s description of the Type [Temminck’s] in the Leyden Museum.” 
A longer series than now exists in any of our Museums from Java, 
Borneo, and Sumatra, may not improbably show that only one and the same 
species is common to all three islands. 

