OrnWiology of Northern Borneo. 411 



manner of a mouse than of a bird. This little bird is ap- 

 parently rare, and in my expeditions 1 only procured three 

 specimens, which were met with iu the true forest at 

 elevations of from four to seven thousand feet. Eye black ; 

 feet and claws white ; bill brown.] 



121. POMATORHINUS BORNEENSIS, Cab. 



Pomatorhinus borneensis, Salvad.Ucc. Born. p. 210; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. vii. p. 411. 



a,b. (J ? ad. Kina Balu, March 20, 1887. 

 c. ^ ad. Kina Balu, April 1, 1887. 



[I only met with this species in the old Dusan rice- 

 clearings, at about 1500 feet, where it frequented the low 

 growth near the ground, especially where broad coarse 

 grasses were abundant. In these spots it makes a large 

 nest like a ball, composed of coarse grasses and lined with 

 finer leaves, in which it lays two glossy white eggs, about 

 the middle of January, those found having been taken on 

 the 20th of that month ; axis 0*95 inch, diam. 0*7. Eye pale 

 yellow; bill dirty white, except at the base of the upper 

 mandible, where it is black ; legs pale slaty blue.] 



122. Garrulax schistochlamys. 



Garrulax schistochlamys, Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 479. 

 a,b. c? ? ad. Kina Balu, May 14, 1888. 

 c. S ad. Kina Balu, May 15, 1888. 



Adult male. Slaty grey on the head, mantle, and back ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts as well as the 

 scapulars and wings chestnut-brown, the primaries externally 

 paler and more fulvous brown ; centre tail-feathers deep 

 chestnut-brown, the remainder blackish, externally deep 

 chestnut ; lores and base of forehead blackish, extending 

 below the eye ; ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, and under 

 surface of body light slaty grey, with blackish shaft-streaks 

 to the feathers of the throat ; sides of body and flanks, 

 thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts light chestnut-brown; 

 under wing-coverts dusky, washed with rufous ; quills dusky 

 brown below, ashy rufous along the inner web. Total length 

 9'5 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 4"7, tail 4' 15, tarsus TG. 



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