Dr. R. Bowdler Sliarpe — Borneaji Notes. 539 



Oriolus vulneratus. 



Oriohis vulneratus, Sharpe ; Everett, t. c. p. 119. 



Mr. Everett has received two young examples of this Oriole, 

 neither of which has any red on the wings. One is entirely 

 black all over, and the other has some rusty feathers on the 

 chest. 



Arboricola erythrophrys. 



Bambusicola erythrophrys, Sharpe ; Everett, t. c. p. 200. 



Arboricola erythrophrys (Sliarpe) ; Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 218, 



By the kindness of the authorities I have been enabled to 

 compare once more the type of A. hyperythra in the Oxford 

 Museum with the fine series of skins of A. erythrophrys 

 brought back by Mr. Everett's collectors from Kina Balu. 

 I fully expected to tind that the two species would turn out 

 to be identical, but after a re- examination of the type of 

 A. hyperythra it is impossible to unite them — at least on 

 the present evidence. A. hi/perythra has a broad grey band 

 extending from the back of the eye dowm the sides of the 

 neck, exactly as it is depicted in Gould's plate in the ' Birds 

 of Asia.' At the same time it has a jet-black head. 



The name erytJirophrys must be considered unfortunate, 

 except that it may be taken as meaning the bare red skin 

 round the eye; but it was intended, of course, to indicate a 

 reddish eyebrow, a character plain enough in Mr. White- 

 head's typical birds. It would seem, however, from the 

 series now before me, that this rufous eyebrow entirely dis- 

 appears, and the whole head becomes black, while in other 

 instances the eyebrow is grey. 



Judging from Mr. Everett's specimens, the young birds 

 have the throat buffy white, Avitli the head brown slightly 

 spotted with black, as well as a dull grey eyebrow, faintly 

 washed with rufous. 



The fully adult bird appears to have the head black, as 

 well as the upper throat; but there is evidently considerable 

 irregularity in the way iu which these are gained, and the 

 eyebrow, whether grey or rufous, is absorbed at last in the 



