1892.] 



ON NEW SPECIES OF TIMELIINE BIRDS. 



227 



14. Cervulxjs muntjac, Zimm. 

 a. $ . 4000 feet. 10/91, 



The following is a list (inserted for comparison) of the mammals 

 obtained during the past few years by Messrs. Hose and Everett 

 at Baram, N.E. Sarawak, that district forming the lowland country 

 between Mt. Dulit and the sea : — 



Hylobates leuciscus, Schr. 



muUeri, Mart. 



Seranopithecus cristatus, Baff. 



chrj'somelas, Miill. LJf' Schl. 



hosei, Thos. 



rubicundus, Miill. cf- Schl. 



Felis bengalensis, Kerr (F. minuta, 

 7m?M.). 



planiceps, Vig. cf^ Horsf. 



badia, Gray. 



Heiuigale hardwickei, Gray. 

 Herpestes brachyurus, Waierh. 

 ■ semitorquatus, Gray. 



Tupaia ferruginea, liaff. 



piuta, Thos. 



dorsalis, Schl. 



Cvnopterus spadiceus, Thos. 

 Rhinoloplius luctua, Tcmin. 

 Hipposidenis cervimis, Gould. 



Sciuropterus pulverulentus, Giinth. 



horsQeldi. Waterh.^ 



lepidus, Horsf. 



Rheithrosciurus macrotis, Gray. 

 Sciurus prevostii, Dusm. 



tenuis, Hor.^f. 



lowii, Thos?- 



Mus, sp. inc. (allied to M. coxincji, 



Swinh.). 

 Trichys guentheri, Thos. 



Su8 barbafAis, MiM. 4- Schl. 

 Tra^ulus napu, F. Cuv. 

 Cervulus inuntjac, Zimm. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate XVIII. 



Hemigale hosei. 



Plate XIX. 



Figs. 1-3. Skull of Hemigale hosei. 

 4, 5. Skull of Tupaia melanura, 

 6. Skull of Sciurus hrookei. 



3. Descriptions of some new Species of Timeliine Birds 

 from West Africa. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D.j 

 RL.S., &c. 



[Received February 27, 1892.] 



(Plate XX.) 



My old friend Prof. Barboza du Bocage has recently sent me for 

 comparison a very interesting bird, which he has received from his 

 correspondent Senhor Francisco Newton, who is well known to Orni- 

 thologists as the discoverer of several new and remarkable forms of 



^ I much regret to have to state that the Sciuropterus described by me 

 (P. Z. S. 1 886, p. 74) as 8. davisoni proves on re-examination, with larger series, 

 to be referable to S. horsfieldi, whether that in its turn is or is not the same as 

 S. sagilta, Liun. 



^ Ann. Mag. N. H, (6) ix. p. 263 (1892). 



