THE I B I S. 



FIFTH SERIES. 



No. XXIV. OCTOBER 



XXXIX. — Further Descriptions of new Species of Birds dis- 

 covered by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mountain of Kina 

 Balu, Northern Borneo. By R. Bowdler SharpEj F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., &c.* 



(Plates IX.-XII.) 



Mr. John Whitehead left Labuan on the I5th of December 

 last, and ascended the great mountain of Kina Balu for the 

 second time. The discoveries of this expedition are no less 

 remarkable than those of the first ; but as, by the time that 

 these lines are in print, Mr. Whitehead may be expected in 

 England, I do not propose to do more than give a very few 

 notes on some of the actual novelties and extreme rarities of 

 which he has sent me specimens. Of the rest of the acts of 

 Mr. Whitehead, of the collections he has made, and of the 

 nests and eggs he has found during his four years' travel in 

 the Malay Archipelago, I hope he will himself give an ac- 

 count. Attention should be especially drawn to the Ceylonese 

 affinities of some of the new genera described in this paper. 



Fam. CoviWiiM, 



1. CiSSA JEFFERYI, Sp. D. 



Adult male. General colour above bright emerald-green ; 



* See Ibis, 1887, p. 435, for previous paper on this subject. 



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