22G ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS [1872. 



this form ; for it likewise is described as being barely larger than P. peregrinvs ; but it may be 

 equal to P. ardeiis, apud nos. If identical with this Bornean bird, Mr. Blyth's title will have 

 precedence (coiif. Blytli, Ibis, 1S6G, p. 3C9, and oj). cit. 1867, p. ISi). 



rniLENTOMA VEL.\TUM (Temm.), PI. Col. 334, d , "Timor and Java" (1825). 



Monacha copsia. Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167, $ , "Sumatra." 



Muscicopn pectornlis, A. Hay, ^ladr. Journ. L. & So. xiii. p. 161*, 6 , " Malacca " (1844). 



Philcutoma unkolor, Blyth, Ibis, 18G-3, p. 46, $ , "Borneo." 



Vicinity of Sarawak % 



One male in the collection. Sumatran, Malaccan, and Bornean examples do not differ. 

 With doubt I follow Mr. Moore and the late Mr. G. R. Gray, and place this Flycatcher in 

 Philentoma, Eyton. 



TcHiTREA AFFixis, A. Hay, J. A. S. B. 1846, p. 292, " Malacca." 

 " Foot of Matang, 2 , iris white, legs and bill cobalt ; Marup, 6 , iris brown." 

 The female is in dingy rufous plumage with a grey throat. The male in pure white, the 

 black of the shafts of the central pair of rectrices extending to their tips. In a white Sarawak 

 male (Wallace) the terminal half of the shafts are white, as in T. paradisi, excepting within 

 half an inch of the end, where they are black. In a Penang example a similar variation is 

 observable. One from Sumatra has the entire shaft black. 



Cyornis eleg.'LXS (Temm.), PL Col. 596. f. 2, "Sumatra (1836). 



" Marup, in August, 6 , iris chocolate, legs lead-colour." 

 Ibis. 1S72, I provisionally identify a single example obtained of a Cijornis with the Sumatran species, 



P' "*''^" not having had an opportunity of making a comparison. 



Chin, the entire throat, forehead, superciliary stripes, upper tail-coverts and shoulders of 

 the wing bright cobalt-blue. A patch of pale rufous on the breast. Flanks very dilute rufous. 

 Lower breast, belly, and imder tail-coverts pure white. Lores and under surface of rectrices 

 black. Remainder of plumage rich indigo-blue. Of the same type as Cyornis ruhcculoidcs 

 (Vigors), but much more brilliantly coloured. Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 18G5, p. 44) considers Miiscicajm 

 elega)is=Pha'iiict(ra rubeculoides, Vigors; if this be so, the Bornean Cyornis is a distinct species. 

 I very much question the correctness of Mr. Blyth's identification ; for Temminck describes the 

 Sumatran Cyornis as having the chin and cheeks, along with the forehead and shoulders, of a 

 bright azure-blue, a feature not to be found in the continental species. 



Erytiiropitta gr.\xati.\a (Temm.), PI. Col. 506, " Pontianak, Borneo " (1830) ; Schlegel, Vog. 

 Nederl. Ind. Pitta, -p. 35, pi. 5. fig. 3, <i , adult, "Banjer massing;" Mus. Pays-Bas, Pitta, p. 5. 

 Brachyiirus granatinus (Temm.), Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. in,])artim, fig. 4. 



" Marup, (J , iris brown, April." 



I concur with Mr. Gould in regarding the Bomcan bird as specifically distinct from that of 

 Malacca, E. eocdnca (Eyton). The following points of difference appear to be constant in 



• [^Anteu, p. ly. — Ed.] 



