35° Elliot on Birds from Northeast Borneo. [October 



Family Timeliid^e. 



7. Orthotomus cinerascens. 



Orthotonus scpium Lafres. Mag. Zool. 1836, pi. 51 {ucc IIorsp.). 

 Orthotomus cinerascens Blytii, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. XIV, p. 4S9 (1S45). 

 — Salv. Ucc. Born. p. 24S (1S74). — Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 225, 



(1SS3) ; id. Ibis, 1SS9, p. 279. 

 Orthotomus borneonensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1S76, p. 41, pi. 11, fig. 1. 

 [Suanlamba River. Iris light hazel. — C. F. A.] 



S. Stachyris nigricollis. 



Timalia -nigricollis Temm. Plan. Col. pi. 594, fig. 2. 

 Timelia nigricollis Salv. Ucc. Bor. p. 212 (1874). 

 Stachyris nigricollis Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 535 (1883). 

 [Suanlamba River. Iris red. A fine songster. — C. F. A. j 



9. Turdinus atrigularis. 



Cacopitta atrigularis Bon. Consp. Av. I, p. 257 (1850). 

 Turdinus atrigularis Salv. Ucc. Born. p. 217 (1874). — Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. VII, p, 549 (1SS3). 

 [Sapagaya River. Iris hazel. Legs light brown. Bare skin behind eye 

 blue. Frequents the ground much after the manner of the Pittas. — C. F. A. 



10. Drymocataphus capistratoides. 



My t'other a capistratoides Temm. Mus. Lugd. ? 



Goldana capistratoides Strickl. Contr. Ornith. 1S49, P- I2 S> pi- 36. 



Drymocataphus capistratoides Strickl. Contr. Ornith. 1S57, p. 16.— 



Salv. Ucc. Born. p. 218 (1S74).— Sharpe, Cat. B. VII (1SS3); 



id. Ibis, 1S77, p. 11; 1S79, P- 2 5S; 18S9, p. 415. 

 [Kinabatangan River. Lis brown. This little bird frequents the same 

 situations as the Pittas, running along through dense brush, taking short 

 flight* only to re-alight on the ground. — C. F. A.] 



I am somewhat in doubt whether to designate the single specimen ob- 

 tained as D. nigricapitata or the present species, since the ear-coverts 

 are much more ashy than black, and the mandible is decidedly yellow and 

 not lead-color. Are the two forms really specifically distinct? 



