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A male and a female from Poetoes Sibau and Mount 
Liang Koeboeng, and three males and two females from 
the Upper Mahakkam (Dr. Nieuwenhuis, winter 1898—99). 
Tris of the male reddish brown, upper mandible brown, 
lower mandible yellow, feet grayish green, of the female 
iris ochraceous, upper mandible gray, lower mandible whitish, 
feet gray. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula and the Sunda Islands. 
30, Hemicercus sordidus. 
Dendropicus sordidus Eyt. Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. XVI, p. 229 (1845). 
Hemicercus concretus Bp. Consp. I, p. 129; Salvad. Uce. Born. p. 47. 
Hemicercus sordidus Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 46; Everett, L. B. Born. 
p. 155; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 7. 
Five specimens from Pontianak, Smitau, Roema Manoeal, 
Poetoes Sibau (Nieuwenhuis) and Poelau, and three spe- 
cimens from the Upper Mahakkam. 
Tris reddish brown, bare space round the eye ashy gray, 
bill black, feet dark gray. — Contents of stomach: small 
white ants. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Banka and Borneo, 
where it is generally distributed. 
A probably not quite adult male from Smitau has the 
feathers of the flanks conspicuously tipped with fulvous. 
31. Lepocestes porphyromelas. 
Picus porphyromelas Boie, Briefe geschr. aus Ostind. p, 148 (1832). 
Lepocestes porphyromelas Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 48; Everett, L. B. 
Born. p. 155; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 7. 
A male and three females from Mount Kenepai, a female 
from Mount Liang Koeboeng, and a male from the Mahak- 
kam River. — Iris blood-red, bill yellow, feet dark gray. 
Hab. From Tenasserim through the Malay Peninsula to 
Sumatra and Borneo, where it is found throughout the island. 
32. Gecinus puniceus. 
Picus puniceus Horst. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 176 (1822). 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXT. 
