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bourhood of cocoa-nut plantations^ where it finds abundant 

 food amongst the flowers of the young nuts. 



The nest is a pocket, suspended from a branch in some 

 tangled bush, and is much more open at the mouth in pro- 

 portion than that of Cinnyr'is pectoralis ; it is made of grass- 

 stems, and lined with the down off the * Hang ' grass, and 

 bound together by spiders' web. Eggs two, dull pink, 

 thickly scribbled over with grey, spotted and sprinkled over 

 with black, after the manner of some Buntings\ Axis 0*7 

 inch, diam. 055. Iris hazel ; feet greenish brown ; bill 

 black.] 



155. Anthothreptes phcenicotis (T.). 

 Anthothreptes phoenicotis, Shelley, Monogr. Neet. p. 3.2.'), 



pi. 105; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 343; id. Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 2G0; id. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 796. 



Cluilcoparia cingalensis (Gm.) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 180. 



a. S ad. Kina Balu, April 1887. 



[Not very plentiful in Northern Borneo, met with at 

 1000 feet on Kina Balu. Iris reddish brown ; fcetycUowisl. 

 green ; bill black.] 



156. Arachnothera modesta. 



Arachnothera modesta (Eyton), Shelley, Monogr. Nect. 

 p. 353, pi. 113. fig. 1. 



a. S ad. Kina Balu, Jan. 16, 1888. 



b,c. S 2 ad. Kii:a Balu, Feb. 20, 1888. 



[Fairly common in old forest. Met with on Kina Balu up 

 to 4000 feet. This species makes a beautiful cup-like nest, 

 which it suspends from the underside of some large leaf. 

 The nest is fastened to the leaf by spiders' web, which is 

 sewn through. It is composed of a bright brown silky sub- 

 stance, which is found on the young fronds of ferns ; a good 

 deal of white down from seeds is also used. The outside 

 is covered with small flower- and plant-stems, stuck together 

 with spiders' web. 



The eggs are two in number, of a deep olive-brown, mottled 

 and clouded all over with grey specks, sometimes with a well- 

 marked zone of black spots and blotches. I took several 



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