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and the Plate represents the two most extreme forms of the Malayan Anthreptes or Brown- 

 throated Sun-birds. 



In the island of Flores, which appears to be the extreme south-eastern range of this species, 

 it has been collected by Mr. Wallace. 



In Borneo it is very abundant, ranging apparently all over the island. According to 

 Mr. Motley it is not rare about Banjermassing. It is recorded by Count Salvadori from 

 Sarawak, in the collections of Doria and Beccari, and has been collected by Mr. Everett at 

 Sibu. Mr. Low and Governor Ussher have sent home a large number from the north-west coast, 

 opposite Labuan. 



Messrs. Motley and Dillwyn write (Nat. Hist. Labuan, p. 16): — "We have seen this bird at 

 the south end of Labuan ; its movements, as we have also observed in other species of this genus, 

 much resemble those of English Titmice." 



The Bornean avifauna seems to extend to the island of Palawan, in the Philippines ; so that 

 we are not surprised to find that the specimens of Anthreptes collected by Dr. Steere in that 

 island belong to the present species, and not to the A. chlorigastra, which he met with in Negros. 



The nest of this bird is oval in form, with a hole at one side near the top. It is rather 

 loosely constructed of cocoanut-fibres, shreds of bark, and a few dead leaves, which bind together 

 the white silk-like down of some plant-seeds, giving consistency to the structure, but not specially 

 forming the lining. Length, exclusive of some of the loose pendent shreds, 4 - 5 inches, breadth 3. 

 The nest here figured and described, and several others of this species in the British Museum, 

 are all similar in structure, and in like manner suspended from twigs. They were collected by 

 Mr. Low in North-western Borneo, whence also came the specimens here described and figured. 



