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This species is exclusively an inhabitant of the lower 
country. In the Kapoeas-region we never met with it at any 
considerable elevation above the plain or the bottom of 
the valleys, nor is any instance known in literature of its 
occurrance on the hitherto explored mountains of Borneo, 
except a female stated by Dr. Sharpe (Ibis 1889, p. 205) 
to be found by Mr. Whitehead »on Kina Balu at 3000 
feet’’. 
I have, however, very strong reasons to doubt the identity 
of the mentioned female from Kina Balu with 8. elegans. 
Nay, from the synonymy of S. elegans in the Catalogue 
of Birds we learn that Dr. Sharpe considers the female of 
this species to have a white loral spot, as the learned 
author adds to this synonymy Muscicapa cantatriz Temm, 
Pl. Col. II, pl. 226, fig. 2 (Q) and Cyornis banyumas 
Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878, p. 615 (Q), both having white 
lores. The first is, however, as is proved by the original 
specimen still preserved in our Museum, nothing but an 
immature female of S. banyumas, and the second has 
afterwards been identified by Mr. Everett (Ibis 1895, p. 
25) as the female of S. Lempriert Sharpe. The female 
in question, from Kina Balu, 3000 feet, very probably 
belongs to S. coeruleata (Bp.), which is, at least for 
the basin of the Kapoeas, unquestionably 4 mountain 
form, of which I collected females in different stages of 
plumage, all with more or less distinct rufous or whitish 
lores. 
The real females of S. elegans (two of them were killed 
together with their males) have no loral spot at all and 
can only be distinguished from the males by the want of 
the blue color on chin and throat, which parts are of a 
somewhat paler rufous than the chest. They can by no 
means be distinguished from S. turcosa, which is, in fact, 
nothing but the female of our S. elegans, a conclusion 
which gets still more strength by the fact that S. turcosa 
is likewise an inhabitant of lower countries and was never 
found above an elevation of 1000 feet, 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. X XI. 
