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The female is mucli browner than the male, especially on 

 the wings. The shade on the underparts is also distinctly 

 browner. 



\_S ad. : iris brownish yellow; feet scaly brown; bill 

 black. $ ad. : iris yellowish green. The young have the 

 eye dark hazel. 



I first met with this bird on Kina Balu, at about 3000 feet, 

 where it was somewhat scarce, but I never saw it higher up 

 the mountain. It is fond of sitting about in open places, 

 hawking for insects, but it is also sometimes observed hopping 

 about in the high trees. The young seem to be two in 

 number.] 



39. Hemipus obscurus. 



Hemipics obscurus (Horsf.), Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 30.5; 

 id. Ibis, 1877, p. 20, 1879, p. 252; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 795. 



Myiolestes obscurus, Salvad. t. c. p. 156. 

 a, i. ? c? afl- Law^as River, April 9, 188G. 



c. S juv. Kiua Balu, March 14, 1887. 



d. 6 ad. Kina Balu, Jan. 13, 1888. 



The young males are at first evidently like the old females, 

 as Mr. Whitehead has one young male emerging from the 

 brown plumage into the full glossy black of the adult male. 



[This is evidently a bird of the low^ country, but it ascends 

 Kina Balu to a height of 1000 feet. Above tliat altitude its 

 place is almost immediately taken by the next species. I 

 found it in Malacca and again in Java, but in neither locality 

 at any great heiglit. Iris brown. Feet brownish black; 

 bill black.] 



40. Hemipus picatus. 



Hemipus jncatus, Sykes ; Sliarpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 307. 

 a,b. (^ ad.; c,cL c^ juv. Kina Balu, Feb. 25, 1887. 



e. f. ? ad. Kina Balu. 



g. S',h,i. ^ ad. Kina Balu, May 1888. 



This species is new to Borneo, and on comparison wdth 

 Tenasserim and Himalayan specimens, I am unable to find 

 the slightest variation. The young males are exactly like 

 the old females, but have a slight greenish glcss on the head. 



