Birds from Kina Balu. 393 



blackish, edged with the same colour as the back, a little 

 brighter and more olive-yellow on the primary-coverts and 

 quills ; crown of head dusky brown, washed with olive-green ; 

 the occiput and nape like the back ; base of forehead washed 

 with olive-yellow ; lores and feathers above and below the 

 eye black ; a distinct eyebrow of olive-yellow ; eyelid black; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks olive-yellow, rather 

 greener posteriorly, like the sides of the neck ; throat and 

 under surface of body pale olive-green, yellower on the centre 

 of the breast, abdomen, and under tail- coverts ; sides of body, 

 flanks, and thighs light olive-green ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries whitish, edged with olive-yellow, the edge of the 

 wing green ; quills below dusky, ashy white along the inner 

 edge : " bill brown, the lower mandible pale yellowish orange ; 

 nasal operculum black ; tarsus brown, toes brownish yellow ; 

 claws brown; iris hazel ^' (/. W.). Total length 5'5 inches, 

 culmen 0'7, wing 2*75, tail 2*1, tarsus 085. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0*7, wing 2'6, tail 1*9, tarsus 0"9. 



Nos. 2077, 2079. '' I do not know well what to call this 

 species, but it is most Finch-like in its ways. Found from 

 7000 to 12,000 feet.'' 



Fam. CAPiToNiDiE. 

 14. MegaLjEMa pulchlrrima, sp. n. (Plate XL fig. 2.) 

 Adult male. General colour above grass-green, all the 

 feathers edged with lighter green ; wing-coverts like the 

 back ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts green ; quills 

 blackish, externally green, yellowish along the edge of the 

 primaries towards their tips, the innermost secondaries 

 entirely gi'een ; tail-feathers green, bluish below ; crown of 

 head beautiful cobalt-blue as far as the nape ; sides of 

 crown golden green from above the eye ; hind neck orna- 

 mented with a distinct collar of golden yellow ; lores black, 

 washed with cobalt-blue, a line of which colour skirts their 

 lower edge to the eye ; above the latter a small streak of 

 cobalt-blue ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks golden 

 green, the fore part of the latter cobalt-blue, like the throat ; 



