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brown, bill pale blue, feet gray. The specimen is in full 
down of a pale bay color, while the quills and tail-feathers 
are showing the barred appearance of the adult stage. — 
Contents of stomach: Spiders (von Berchtold). 
Hab. Borneo. 
12. Phodilus badius. 
Strix badia Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 189 (1822). 
Phodilus badius Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 21; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 178. 
An adult male from Poetoes Sibau, and a female from 
Long Bloe (Upper Mahakkam). — Iris brown, bill yellowish 
white, cere rosy white, feet pale flesh-color. — Contents 
of stomach: remnants of a large nocturnal butterfly (von 
Berchiold). 
Hab. Ceylon, and from the Eastern Himalayas through 
Burmah and the Malay Peninsula to Nias, Sumatra, Java 
and Borneo. 
13. Glaucidium sylvaticum. 
Plate 13. 
Athene sylvatica By. Consp. I, p. 40 (Type in Mus. Lugd.), 1850. 
Glaucidium sylvaticum Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. II, p. 215; Salvad. 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, XIV, p. 174 (1879). 
Glaucidium borneense Sharpe, Ibis 1893, p. 549 (Mount Kalulong), 
p. 562 (Kina Balu). 
An adult male from Mount Liang Koeboeng (780 m. 
above the level of the sea). — Iris sulphur-yellow, bill and 
feet greenish yellow. 
This rare and interesting species, probably a true mount- 
ain-form, was until lately only known from the typical speci- 
men, collected by S. Miiller, and two others, collected by 
Beceari in 1878, all three on the slopes of Mount Singa- 
lang, Western Sumatra, There is not the least difference 
to be found between this Bornean specimen and the type, 
neither in size nor in color, and a comparison of Dr. Sharpe’s 
above quoted description of G. borneensis convinced me 
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