422 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the 



feathers on the flanks ashy -white ; lower abdomen, thighs, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts pale greenish yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills below dusky, white 

 along the inner edge. Total length 3"3 inches, culmen 0*55, 

 wing 1'75, tail 1*05, tarsus 0*5. 



[Found on Kina Balu at from 2000 to 6000 feet, but most 

 plentiful about 4000 feet, where it frequents the high forest 

 trees and feeds among the many parasitical plants which cover 

 their boughs with many beautiful flowers. Iris and bill 

 black ; feet dark brown.] 



149. tEthopyqa stparaja. 



^thopijga siparaja (Raffl.) ; Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 57, 

 pi. 19; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 342; id. Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 260. 



jMthopyga eupogon, Cab.; Salvad. t. c. p. 173; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 42, 1877, p. 17 ; id. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 796. 



a. ^ ad. Labuan, May 1886. 



b. cJ ad. Labuan, June 30, 1886. 



c. S ad. Kina Balu, March 17, 1887. 



d. ? ad. Kina Balu, April 1887. 



e. ? ad. Kina Balu, May 5, 1888. 



[Fairly common in the lowland forests, and found on Kina 

 Balu up to 2000 feet, above which elevation its place is im- 

 mediately taken by ^. temmincki, neither species seeming 

 to overlap the range of the other. 



In the end of April I found a nest of this species which 

 was placed under an overhanging bank amongst loose roots 

 of trees. The nest was a long pocket made outwardly of dead 

 grass and lined with fine roots. The eggs were two in 

 number, of a pale salmon-pink, blotched with darker tints at 

 the larger end, then spotted and marked with dark lake-red. 

 Axis 0*55 inch, diam. 0*4. 



Native name ^' Suit merah'^ (red). "Suit" is the native 

 name of all species of Nectarinia, called so from their note, 

 which is " suit suit.''] 



150^ Chalcostetha insignis. 



Clialcostetha insignis (Jard.) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 177 ; Shelley, 



