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found it more plentiful at a higher elevation, between 5000 

 and 8000 feet. It frequents the real forest, and does not 

 come into the open. Ii'is, bill, and feet black.] 



73. Stoparola thalassinoides. 



Stoparola thalassinoides (Cab.) ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 132 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 439. 



a. ? ad. Kina Balu, April 1887. 



b. S ad. Kina Balu, Jan. 12, 1888. 



c. ? ad. Kina Balu, April 20, 1888. 



The female differs from the male in being much paler and 

 more greyish blue, with no black on the lores, cheeks, or 

 chin, these parts being ashy, washed with blue, like the 

 under surface ; the throat is slightly hoary in appearance, as 

 also the lores. Total length 5 inches, culmenO'4, wing 2*85, 

 tail 2"15, tarsus OQ. 



[Apparently very rare everywhere, as I only found it on 

 the lower parts of Kina Balu, nowhere above 1000 feet.] 



74. SiPHIA ELEGANS. 



Slphia elegatis (T.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 417; id. Ibis, 

 1879, p. 275. 



Cyornis elegans, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 130. 



a. ? ad. Kina Balu, Feb. 24, 1887. 



b. S ad. Kina Balu, Oct. 20, 1885. 



c. ^ ad. Kina Balu, Sept. 1885. 



[The female was procured on Kina Balu at 3000 feet. It 

 was decidedly an uncommon bird at Benkoka.] 



75. SiPHIA BANYUMAS. 



Siphia banyumas (Horsf) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 449; id. 

 P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 337, 794; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 254. 



Cyornis banyumas^ Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 130 ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 18. 



a. (^ imm. Sandakan, April 22, 1885. 



b. ? ad. Labuan, Jan. 20, 1886. 



c. S ad. Benkoka, Oct. 26, 1885. 



[Common enough all over the lowlands^ but I never met 

 with it on Kina Balu.] 



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