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the eye, lower part of the checks, chin, throat, and upper part of breast white feintly tinted with 

 pale iron-grey. A small space before the eye, and extending behind the eye, dark brown or black. 

 A pale grey space below the eye. Lower breast pale straw-colour, some of tlie feathers being 

 tipped with pale ashy brown. Remainder of lower surface and under tail-coverts pale straw- 

 colour. Flanks pale fuliginous-brown. Under shoulder-coverts mixed pale yellow and pale 

 brown. Bill horn-brown, shading to pale grey or bluish grey at the tip of the maxilla and 

 throughout most of the mandible. Feet very pale pink or flesh-colour. A bunch of fine 

 black hairs springs from the nape. The bill is long, much compressed towards the tip : 

 the maxilla has the culmen perfectly straight ; at the tip it bends suddenly downwards, 

 forming a formidable hook and showing a distinct notch. The commissure is also quite straight, 

 and the maxilla rather overlaps the mandible. The gonys is curved. The rictus is armed with 

 powerful and long bristles. The tarsus is short, and the toes are weak. The first quill is about IWs, 18V2, 

 two thirds of the length of the second ; this is half an inch shorter than the third, which, again, 

 is nearly as much shorter than the fourth. The fourth quill is longest and slightly exceeds the 

 fifth, the sixth being somewhat longer than the third. 



An example, labelled a female, obtained by Mr. Wallace at Sarawak, and now in his 

 collection, has the under plumage hardly tinted with yellow, the under tail-coverts nearly pure 

 white, and the breast-feathers more decidedly brown. It exhibits also a distinct black stripe 

 below each cheek. 



Another example ( ? fide Wallace), also obtained at Sarawak, and now in my collection, 

 differs by having the upper plumage of a lighter shade of brown, the under plumage more or less 

 pure white, and the bill shorter. 



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Notwithstanding the diiference of colouring exhibited by these three individuals, I do not 

 doubt that they belong to the same species. Generally they agree so well with the description 

 given by Lesson {I. c.) of S. criniger that, unless the Bornean is a representative form, it will in 

 all likelihood prove to be the same as that hitherto unidentified Sumatran species. I suspect that 

 this is also the type of Tridioplwropsis, Bp., T. typus, Bp., Compt. Eend. vol. xxxviii. p. 69, 

 "Borneo" (1854). 



Brachypus criniger, A. Hay (/. c.) ex Malacca, is a totally distinct species. It is a small 

 bird (wing 2\ inches), with the bill of an Alciiipe. Underneath it is bright yellow, above 

 ferruginous olive. The rectrices are pale ferruginous, with obscure pale yellow tips. Mr. Blyth 

 has identified Criniger sericea, Miiller, Mus. Lugd., with this species (Ibis, 1865, p. 48) ; 

 Mr. Wallace obtained it at Sarawak. It is probably Trichophoixqms viridis, Bp. (I. c), 

 " Borneo " (1854), and Trichojihorus minutus, Hartl. J. fiir O. 1853, p. 15G, " Malacca" (conf. O. 

 Finsch, J. fiir O. 1867, p. 19). 



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