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each eye, and a patch on each side of breast, white, partly tipped 

 ■with buff; throat with some scattered white plumes, hair-like at base 

 and dilated at the tip of each ; nape and upper part of back furnished 

 with a few scattered buff plumes. 



Basilornis cehbensis, Temm. MS. 



Basilornis eorythaix, p., Pr. B. Consp. Av. p. 420 (descrip.). 



Hab. Celebes (Menado, Makassar) (Wallace). 



Fig. 2. 



4. On a New Species of the Genus Copsychus from Bor- 

 neo. By p. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., Secretary to the 

 Society. 



Copsychus suavis. 



Nigrosericea, alis extus fiiscescetitioribus ; abdomine saturate 

 castaneo ; dorso imo et caudce recfricibus lateralibus candidis, 

 harum quatuor mediis et proximo utrinque pogonio interior e 

 nigris : rostro nigra, pedibus pallide fuscis. 



Long, tota 9'0, alse 4-0, caudae 4'5. 



Hab. In Borneo meridionali. 



Obs. Affinis Copsgcho macruro, sed statura majore, cauda breviore 

 et rectricum pictura diversus. 



I have selected two examples of this pretty species of Copsychus 

 out of a small collection of bird skins from Banjermassing in South- 

 ern Borneo, now in the hands of Mr. S. Stevens. Its nearest ally 

 is that well-known beautiful songster the Copsychus maerurus of 

 India, from which, however, it is readily distinguished by its larger 

 size, shorter tail, and the three lateral rectrices, as well as the outer 

 web of the next pair, being wholly of a pure white. There are, how- 

 ever, blackish edgings at the base of the inner web of the second and 

 third pair in one of the specimens, which I take to be a male. In the 

 other, which is probably the female, these are absent, and the three 



