82 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the 



d. ? ad. Kina Bahi, Marcli 1, 1888. Wing 5-8 inches. 



e. ? ad. Kina Balu, Marcli 9, 1888. Wing 5*75 inches. 

 /. ? ad. Kina Bahi, March 15, 1888. Wing 5*4 inches. 



The figure in the plate (/. c.) is, I regret to say, not 

 accurate. It represents the bird with a purely grey back, 

 and black lores and forehead. At first I thought that 

 Mr. Whitehead had got a second species on Kina Balu^ but 

 Professor Westwood very kindly sent me the type specimen 

 of my D. cinerascens from Oxford, and I now believe that 

 the Kina Balu bird is the same as that from the Lawas, 

 whence came the type specimen. The following amendments 

 are, however, required in the original description and figure. 

 The pale rusty edgings on the tips of the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, as well as on the head and wing-coverts, are a 

 mark of immaturity, and fully adult birds show no sign of 

 them. The back is brown on the mantle, not uniform blue- 

 grey as figured. The scapulars are delicate grey at the ends 

 (these are all missing in the type). The lores, nasal plumes, 

 and base of forehead are light brown ; this is succeeded by 

 a broad black band which reaches above the eye and extends 

 backwards into a dark brown eyebrow, deeper in colour than 

 the ear- coverts, 



[This bird is fairly common in Kina Balu from about 

 1000 feet up to quite 9000 feet. It frequents the thick 

 jungle-growth which springs up after the rice-crops, and in 

 four or five years reaches a height of from 12 to 20 feet. 

 It is also met with at 9000 feet among the big trees in the 

 thick forest, but it is not so common. It has a loud bell- 

 like note, also a cackling cry like that of our common 

 Magpie. Sometimes four or five may be seen together. It 

 builds in the low jungle, constructing a shallow nest of fine 

 twigs. I found one on the 13th of March, 1888, on a low 

 tree in the scrub. It contained two eggs, very Magpie-like 

 in appearance. Length 1*2 in., diam. 0*9 in. The ground- 

 colour is greenish white, dotted all over with brown mark- 

 ings, which increase in size towards the larger end, where 

 there is a blotch of brown, forming a nearly complete ring. 

 Iris light hazel ; bill and feet black. Dnsan name '' Man- 

 tihak.^'] 



