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a large blue naked patch on each side of the neck." This latter character is very 

 well visible in the skins. While the skin is whitish in other places of the body, 

 these bare patches are slaty black in the skins. It is partly on this peculiarity that 

 Count Salvador! founded his genus Cyanoderma, the " type " being C. erythropterum, 

 which has also a dark blue patch of skin on the side of the neck. Much more is 

 this found in Macronus ptilosus, and it seems suggestive of being blown up at times. 

 This blue patch of skin is not found in Mixornis proper, and the bill in the latter is 

 less straight and the nostrils differently shaped and much more open. It is there- 

 fore advisable to separate Cyanoderma from Mixornis. On the other hand, the 

 Indian species rufaeps, rujifrons, and pyrrhops have no bare blue patch on the 

 neck, and agree in the bill and nostrils more with Cyanoderma than with Mixornis. 

 They are best separated as Stachyridopsis Sharpe (see Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind. 

 Birds I.), but the three genera Mixornis, Cyanoderma^ Stachyridopsis are closely 

 allied and must be placed close together. With regard to Dr. Vorderman's descrip- 

 tion of his specimen from Mount Salak, it must be said that the black spots on the 

 side of the neck do not join those of the crop-region, but are widely separated, part 

 of the skin between being naked and blue. Otherwise Vorderman's description is 

 very good. 



10. Orthotomus sepium Horsf. 

 Low country, c? . " Iris very pale reddish brown ; feet of the same colour." 



11. Prinia familiaris Horsf. 

 Common in the low country. " Eyelids red ; feet pale reddish ; bill black." 



12. Parus atriceps Horsf. 



1 ? ad., 1 <J juv., 2000 to 3000 feet and low country. ? ad. " Iris very dark 

 brown ; bill black ; commissure brown; feet pale slaty blue." In every respect like 

 Parus atriceps typicus from Java. The young bird is tinged with yellow on the 

 abdomen. 



13. Dicaeum flammeum (Sparrm.). 

 Met with in the low country. 



14. Dicaeum trigonostigma (Scop.). 



A single male from between 2000 and 3000 feet. It is somewhat pale below, 

 but this is probably only an individual character. 



15. Cinnyris pectoralis (Horsf.). 

 Low country and 2000 to 3000 feet. " Iris deep brown ; bill and feet black." 



16. Anthreptes malaccensis (Scop.). 



In the low country and between 2000 and 3000 feet. The females (two) are 

 grey above, like the Eastern form (A. m. chlorogaster\ but they are in abraded 

 plumage and some new feathers are greenish. The male is not at all like the 

 Eastern form, but quite like A. m. typica. 



17. Arachnothera affinis (Horsf.). 



2000 to 3000 feet. " Iris dark brown ; bill blackish, paler, and somewhat 

 reddish below ; feet pale purplish reddish." 



