lii CLASSIFICATION. 



province of Sumatra, by Dr. Beccari; and Mr. Sharpe records a specimen sent home from the 

 Lavvas river, in Northern Borneo, by Mr. W. H. Treacher. 



Page 373. Arachnoraphis flaviqastra. Add : — 

 Araehnotliera simillima, Hume, Str. F. vii, p. 171 (1878). 



With regard to A. simillima Mr. Hume writes (/. c):— "Our people sent us up from near 

 Malacca three more specimens precisely similar to the type, two of which appear to be not only 

 quite adult, but rather old birds. 



" Having now four specimens of this form, all of them of precisely the same type, I hardly 

 see how we can avoid the conclusion that they represent a distinct species." 



