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[More plentiful on the sea-coast, where it frequents the 

 Casuarina trees and mangrove-swamps on the edges of 

 rivers. Also found on Kina Balu up to 3000 feet. In 

 habits this bird is like a true Nuthatch. It was only on 

 shooting a Dendrophila in Palawan that I discovered the dif- 

 ference of the two species. The Bornean bird has turned 

 out to be the undescribed form, the Palawan and Java 

 species being the true D. frontalis wdth black legs. The 

 Bornean bird is also more vivid in colouring. 



Native name " Tempakeris." (What this means I do not 

 know.) Iris straw-yellow ; bill and legs vermilion, the 

 former tipped with black. The bill in the true D. frontalis 

 is not " bright cobalt-blue " as is stated in vol, viii. of the 

 Museum 'Catalogue' (p. 359), but of an orange-vermilion.] 



Fam. Nectariniid.e. 



l^S. tEthopyga temmincki. 



yEthop!/ga temmincki (S. Miill.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 419 ; Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 47, pi. 16. fig. 1. 

 a, 6. J ? ad. Kina Balu, Feb. 20, 1887. 



c. ? ad. Kina Balu, April 14, 1888. 



d. (J ad. Kina Balu, May 8, 1888. 



This species was first recorded from Sarawak by myself in 

 ' The Ibis ' {I. .c) The female remains, so I add a descrip- 

 tion : — 



Adult female. General colour above olive-yellow, with a 

 golden shade on the back ; lesser and median coverts like 

 the back ; greater coverts, bastard- wing, and primary-coverts 

 dusky brown, externally olive, with a tinge of orange-red ; 

 quills dusky brown, edged with yellow, which is more or less 

 tinged with orange-red ; the innermost secondaries olive- 

 brown ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with orange-red, 

 olive towards the ends of the outer webs ; crown of head 

 ashy grey, the occiput and nape washed with olive-yellow ; 

 lores ashy ; eyelids whitish ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and 

 cheeks ashy grey, the latter washed with olive ; chin, throat, 

 and under surface of body pale greenish, the throat rather 

 more ashy ; on the sides of body a silky white patch ; long 



