1892.] 



ON NEW SPECIES OF TIMELIINE BIRDS. 



227 



14. Cervulus muntjac, Zimm. 

 a. 5 . 4000 feet. 10/91. 



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

 ohtained during the past few years hy Messrs. Hose and Everett 

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

 between Mt. Dulit and the sea : — 



Hylobates leuciscus, Schr. 



miilleri, Mart. 



Semnopithecus crisfcatus, Itajf. 



cbrysomelas, Miill. cf Schl. 



hosei, Thos. 



• rubicundus, Mull. Sj- Schl. 



Felis bengalensis, Kerr (¥■. minuta, 

 Temnt.'). 



planiceps, Vig. ^ Horsf. 



badia, Gray. 



Hemigale bardwickei, Gray. 

 Herpestes bracbyiirus, Waterh. 

 semitorquatus, Gray. 



Tupaia ferruginea, Baff. 



■ picta, Thos. 



dorsalis, Schl. 



Cynopterus spadiceus, Thos. 

 Rbinolopbus luctus, Temm. 

 Hipposiderus cervinus, Gould. 



Sciuropterus pulverulentus, Gilnth. 



borsfieldi, Waterh} 



lepidus, Korsf. 



Eheitbrosciurus maei'otis, Gray. 

 Sciurus jDi-evostii, Besm. 



tnniiis, Horsf. 



lowii, Thos?- 



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



Swinh.). 

 Tricbys guentberi, Thos. 



Sus barbatus, Mull. ^- Schl. 

 Tragulus napvi, F. Cuv. 

 Cervulus muntjac, Zimm. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate XVIIL 

 Hemigale hosei. 



Plate XIX. 



Figs. 1-3. Skull of Hemigale hosei. 

 4, 5. Skull of Tupaia melanura. 

 6. Skull of Sciurus hroolcei. 



3. Descriptions of some new Species of Timeliine Birds 

 from West Africa. By E. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.I)., 

 F.L.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 mucli regret to bave to state tbat the Scitiroptertis described by me 

 (P. Z. S. 1886, p. 74) as 8. davisoni proves ou re-exainination, with larger series, 

 to be referable to 8. horsfieldi, whether that in its turu is or is not the same as 

 <S. sagitta, Linn. 



2 Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) ix. p. 253 (1892). 



