Elliot on Birds from Northeast Borneo. [October 



ORDER PASSERES. 

 Family Turdid^e. 



i. Geocichla interpres. 



Tardus interpres Temm. Plan. Color, pi. 458. — Less. Trait. Ornith. p. 



410 (1831). 

 Geocichla interpres Sharpe, Cat. B. V, p. 166. 



Suanlatnba River. A single specimen differs somewhat from G. inter- 

 pres, by not having any ochraceous on the flanks. 

 [Found in damp situations. Shy. — C. F. A.] 



2. Copsychus adamsi, sp. now 



Adult Male: — Entire plumage glossy purplish black, shading to a 

 slaty gray on lower part of abdomen. A large, white patch on wing in- 

 cluding least, median and greater coverts, with a black inner web to the 

 innermost greater coverts. The edge of outer web on the sixth second- 

 ary of the right wing is white for two thirds its length from the base. 

 This does not exist on the left wing and is possibly abnormal. Tail, feet, 

 and bill black. "Iris dark brown." Total length (skin), S^in. Wing 4^. 

 Bill, \. Tail, 4. Tarsus i£ in. 



Female. — Above glossy black, like the male, but with the outer web of 

 the sixth secondary broadly edged with white. Below ashy gray, the 

 throat and breast with a strong bluish cast. Otherwise like the male, 

 except slightly smaller. 



A nearly mature male differs from the male above described in having 

 the lower abdomen and flanks ashy. 



Types, No. 49,677, $ , No. 49,678, °. , Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Sandakan, 

 May 11 and 12, 1887; C. F. Adams. 



This bird resembles closely C. seychellarum A. Newton (Ibis, 1865, p. 

 332, pi. 8.) from the Seychelles, but is smaller in all its measurements, 

 those given of Newton's type being as follows: tot. length 10.5 in.; cul- 

 men 1; wing 4.9; tail 4.7; tarsus 1.55. It is rather singular to find 

 so near a representative of a Seychelles species in Borneo. 



[Rather common along clear brooks in shady situations. — C. F. A.] 



3. Cittocincla stricklandi. 



Copsychus stricklandi Mottl. & Dill, Nat. Hist. Lab. p. 20, pi. iv [1855]. 

 Kittocincla stricklandi^ Sax.v. Ucc. Born. p. 253(1874). 

 Cittocincla stricklandi Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 8S (1883) ; id. Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 270. 



