196 Mr. E. B. Sharpe on the 



to be incapable of preservation. I met with the species in 

 Java at about 5000 feet.] 



55. MUSCICAPULA WESTERMANNI. 



Muscicapula westermanni, Sharpe^ P. Z. S. 1888, p. 270. 



M. macidata (nee Tick.), Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 385. 

 a, h. $ ad. Kina Balu, Jan, 1888. 

 c, d, e. s ; f, y- ? ad. Kina Balu, Feb. 1888. 



I have nothing to add to my note in last year's ' Ibis ■* 

 (/. c), but it is evident that Mr. Wray was mistaken in his 

 determination of the type specimen, vrhich must be a female, 

 and not a male. At the same time the species is quite dis- 

 tinguishable from M. maculata on the strength of the female 

 bird alone. 



[Bill, feet, and iris black. One of my hunters discovered 

 a pair engaged in building a nest, and on the 25th of March 

 he again visited the breeding-places. The nest was placed in 

 a creeper in the big forest, at about 40 feet from the ground ; 

 it was quite a small pile of moss, deep, and lined with fine 

 white roots, a very pretty bit of work, and contained one 

 small fawn-coloured egg. The bird would probably have 

 laid two eggs, after the manner of most species in these 

 latitudes. This species ranges from 4000 to 90C0 feet,] 



56. Xanthopygia narcissina (Temm.). 

 Xanthopygia narcissina, Sharpe, Cat. B,iv. p. 249. 



a, b. J ad, et imm. Kina Balu, April 1887, 



New to Borneo. The younger male has the orange throat 

 of the adult, but is brown on the back and wings, the latter 

 just showing the white wing-patch. The head and feet are 

 black, and the yellow eyebrow is well developed. 



[I first met with this bird on the Lawas River, but the skin 

 was too much damaged for preservation. The two which I 

 got on Kina Balu were also extremely fat and difficult to 

 preserve. They were only procured at about 1000 feet on 

 the mountain, and were evidently bent on migrating north- 

 wards.] 



57. XANTHOrYGIA CYANOMEL^NA (Tcmm,). 



Xanthopygia cyanomelana, Sharpe, Cat, B, iv. p. 251 ; id. 

 P. Z. S, 1879, p, 337 ; id. Ibis, 1879, p, 253. 



