I — An Apparently New Race of Flower- 

 pecker from Borneo. By Einar Lonnberg. 



Tn December 1928 Dr. E. Mjoberji" collected on his way 

 back from Mt. Muriid at rinmah Tamabo Perak in the Kalabit 

 country, N. Sarawak, a Flower-pecker which he kindly has 

 sent to me for identification. When dissecting the bird 

 Dr. Mjoberg observed that the testicles were "enormonsly 

 developed," so that there could be no mistake about its beinc" 

 a male. Considering" this it was apparent that it belonged 

 to the plain-coloured 7ninuU urn -group, as the length of its wing 

 was only 45 mm. 



Upper parts of the head dark olive-brown with comparatively 

 broad olive-green edges to the feathers, so that thus each 

 feather shows a dark central disk nnd a green margin. 

 Eemaining upper parts olive-green, more greyish on nape and 

 neck, more strongly green on the back and finally inclining 

 to olive-yellow on the lower rump and upper tail coverts. 

 Wing coverts edged like the back, the quills with more olive- 

 yellow outer margins, better developed on the secondaries than 

 on the primaries, on which the light margin is quite narrow 

 and even absent on the outermost one. Tail almost black, 

 obsoletely tipped with brownish -white. Lores and sides of 

 head grey with a slight olive tinge. Throat and fore neck 

 ashy-grey. Centre of breast and belly creamy-whitish, sides 

 of body and flanks pale olive-green, vent and lower tail 

 coverts sulphur- yellow, strongly contrasting both 'with flanks 

 and belly. Under wing-coverts and axillaries silky-white with 

 a hardly perceptible tinge of sulphur-yellow on tbe outer ones. 

 Culmen not quite 8 mm. Tail 22 mm. 



Tf now a comparison is made with the other plain-coloured 

 races, two, viz., roncolor Jerdon and ohscurum Ogilvie 

 Grant, may be discarded at once in consequence of their much 

 larger size. 



D. m. sollicitaYis Hartert from Java has a buff patch on 

 the lores, and D. m. suhflavinn Stuart Baker from Belgaum 



Sar. Mus. Journ., No. 8, 1925. 



