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XIX. — Further Notes on Calyptomena whitehead!. By R. 

 BoAVDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



(Plate V.) 



The brief description which I gave last year (P. Z. S. 1887, 

 p. 558) of this beautiful species was founded on a pair of 

 birds sent by Mr. John Whitehead in advance of the bulk of 

 his collection from Kina Balu. When the whole of the latter 

 arrived last autumn, I described merely the new species 

 (Ibis, 1887, p. 435), leaving Mr. Whitehead to give a com- 

 plete account of his collection on his return to Europe, which, 

 it is hoped, will take place next August. As many of my 

 readers are aware, he is at present engaged on a second 

 exploration of the mountain of Kina Balu, which I trust may 

 be as successful as the first. 



Among the skins sent home by Mr. Whitehead from this 

 locality were two additional specimens of the Calyptomena, 

 one of which is a young female, in a stage of plumage which 

 has not yet been described. It is of a much duller green 

 than the old birds, and is much less mottled with the black 

 bases to the feathers, which give the latter such a distin- 

 guished appearance. The head is very little crested, and 

 the black patch on the throat is duller and much smaller. 

 The green of the underparts is also much duller than in the 

 adults, and, as in the case of the back, the black bases to 

 the feathers are not seen. Mr. Whitehead states that in the 

 adults the " bill is horny green, the upper mandible darker ; 

 feet horny green; iris black." 



The Plate accompanying the present article has been pre- 

 sented to this Journal by Mr. Jeffrey Whitehead, who wished 

 to have an early representation given in ' The Ibis ' of this. 

 bird, the finest of his song's ornithological discoveiies. 



