1875.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM LABUAN. 105 
Sumatran specimens, I fail to find any specific difference at all, and 
agree with previous authors who have united them. 
The nest is a rude structure, apparently taken off the ground, 
and composed of fine roots and slender twigs, with a few dead leaves 
and dry moss. The four eggs sent are white, with scribblings of 
dark grey or chocolate-brown freely distributed all over the surface, 
but nowhere so thick as to obscure to any extent the white ground 
of the egg. 
Family Trmatup2z. 
28. Macronvs ptixosus, J. & S.; Salvad. 7. c. p. 216. 
This species has not before been noticed from Labuan ; but Mr. 
Low sends a pair with the nest and eggs. The nest appears to 
have been taken from the ground, and is a coarsely made structure, 
composed of thin roots and grasses badly welded together, with a few 
dead leaves round the outside. The eggs are thickly speckled with 
brown on a ground of dull white, and are not very unlike thickly 
marked eggs of the common Sparrow of Europe. 
29, SeTaRIA AFFINIS (Blyth) ; Salvad. 7. ¢c. p. 231. 
Three specimens. New to Labuan. 
30. BracuypTeRyx MALACCENSIS, Hartl.; Salvad. l.c. p. 222. 
One specimen. New to Labuan. 
31. Mrxornis BORNEENSIS, Bp.; Salvad. J. c. p. 215. 
Several specimens. 
32, TimeLra MAcuLaTA, Temm.; Salvad. lc. p. 211. 
Three specimens. 
33. CyYANODERMA BICOLOR. 
Timalia, sp., Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 215. 
Timalia bicolor, Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 46. 
The series of this species sent by Mr. Low proves that it is not 
the true C. erythropterum of Blyth (cf. Salvad. Uce. Born. p. 213), 
and that the characters communicated to Dr. Sclater by Mr. Wallace 
(of. Sclater, /.c.) are of specific importance. In spite of its sug- 
gested Malaccan origin, I believe that the Timalia bicolor of Mr. 
Blyth will turn out to be the Bornean bird; and I therefore adopt 
the title. 
C. bicolor differs from C. erythropterum in being brighter rufous 
above, and in having the breast and belly ochraceous brown; the 
entire head, throat, and chest are blackish slate-colour, whereas in 
C. erythropterum the colour of the back is extended on to the 
occiput and crown of the head. Count Salvadori thinks that 
Blyth’s species may be the male ; but all Mr. Low’s specimens are 
the same; nor do the young differ materially ; and my comparison of 
adults has been made with a sexed male specimen of Mr. Wallace’s, 
from Sumatra. 
