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and dilated at the tip of each ; nape and upper part of back furnished 

 with a few scattered buff plumes. 



Basilornis celebensis, Temm. MS. 



Basilornis corythaix, p., Pr. B. Consp. Av. p. 420 (descrip.). 



Hab. Celebes (Menado, Makassar) {Wallace). 



Fig. 2. 



On a New Species of the Genus Copsychus from Bor- 

 neo. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., Secretary to the 

 Society. 



Copsychus suavis. 



Nigro-sericea, alis extus fuscescentioribus ; abdomine saturate 

 castaneo ; dorso imo et caudce rectricibus lateralibus candidis, 

 harum quatuor mediis et proximo; utrinque pogonio interiore 

 nigris : rostro nigro, pedibus pallide fuscis. 



Long, tota 9"0, alae 4*0, caudse 4 - 5. 



Hab. In Borneo meridionali. 



Obs. Arfinis Copsycho macruro, sed statura majore, cauda breviore 

 et rectricum pictura diversus. 



I have selected two examples of this pretty species of Copsychus 

 out of a small collection of bird skins from Banjermassing in South- 

 ern Borneo, now in the hands of Mr. S. Stevens. Its nearest ally 

 is that well-known beautiful songster the Copsychus macrurus of 

 India, from which, however, it is readily distinguished by its larger 

 size, shorter tail, and the three lateral rectrices, as well as the outer 

 web of the next pair, being wholly of a pure white. There are, how- 

 ever, blackish edgings at the base of the inner web of the second and 

 third pair in one of the specimens, which I take to be a male. In the 

 other, which is probably the female, these are absent, and the three 

 external pairs of rectrices are wholly white, the belly is paler chest- 

 nut, the plumage above more dusky, and the size smaller. 



I think this species having the tail of Copsychus and the colours 

 of the so-called genus Kittacincla, justifies us in uniting these two 



