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did not come across it, nor did Mr. C. Bock meet with it 

 in the same district. Lord Tweeddale has already remarked 

 on the identity of specimens from Malacca, Borneo, and 

 Sumatra ; and this I find to be the case in the birds I have 

 examined from these localities, I have not been able, per- 

 sonally, to compare Javan specimens ; but Mr. Sharpe, at my 

 request, has been kind enough to examine the types from 

 Java in the Leiden Museum, and he fails to discover any 

 difference between these and Bornean specimens with which 

 I had supplied him. 



I had been led to suspect that Javan birds might prove 

 distinct — recollecting Malherbe's extraordinary figure, in 

 which this Sasia is represented with four toes and with the 

 outside tail-feathers white. What has become of the bird 

 from which the figure was taken I am not able to say ; but if 

 it is in Coimt Turati^s collection with the rest of Malherbe's 

 Woodpeckers, it is desirable that it should be reexamined. 



In collections from North-western Borneo the present 

 species is generally to be found, being numerous in those 

 of Mr. Hugh Low ; and it was also sent from Lumbidan by 

 the late Governor Ussher and Mr. Treacher; and in the 

 Sarawak district it also occurs, as we know from the re- 

 searches of the Marquis Doria and Dr. Beccari. By some^ 

 oversight, however, Mr. Sharpe has omitted to record, in his 

 papers on Mr. Alfred Everett^s collections, the finding of 

 this bird near Sibu and Simunjon ; but in Mr. Sharpens copy 

 of Salvadori's ' Uccelli di Borneo " the fact is not only duly 

 entered, but the colours of the soft parts are copied from one of 

 Mr. Everett's labels. These I have embodied in my descrip- 

 tion. As yet, Mr. W. B. Pryer has not met with the species 

 in Sandakan; but the late Mr. Motley procured it near Ban- 

 jermassing, whence also specimens collected by Schicrbrand 

 are in the Leiden Museum. In Count Salvadori's work on 

 the birds of Borneo, he records a pair of birds from Sarawak, 

 and very properly points out the silky golden appearance on 

 the breast in both sexes, though less distinct in the female. 

 This character is not shown in Temminck's figures, nor in 

 Malherbe's, the latter author figuring the base of the outer 



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