206 BIRDS OF THE 
Myjiolestes obscurus Salvad. Uce. Born. p. 156. 
Hemipus obscurus Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. III, p. 805; id. Ibis 1889, 
p-. 189. 
Two adult males and a female, all from Smitau, an 
adult male from Pontianak and three males and a female 
from the Upper Mahakkam. — Iris dark brown, bill and 
feet black. 
Hab. Malacca'), Sumatra, Banka and Billiton (speci- 
mina in Mus. Lugd.), Java and Borneo, where it is spread 
throughout the island. 
122. Hemipus picatus. 
Muscicapa picata Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 85. 
Hemipus intermedius Salvad, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. XIV (1879), p. 209 
(Uccelli di Sumatra); Buttik. N.L.M. 1887, p. 51. 
Hemipus picatus Sharpe, Ibis 1889, p. 189; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 
123; Oates, Faun. Br. Ind. Birds, I, p. 471; Sharpe, Ibis 1892, 
p. 484; id. id. 1898, p. 551; id. id. 1894, p. 543. 
Hemipus capitalis Hose, Ibis 1893, p. 395. 
An immature male and two females obtained on the 
western slope of Mount Liang Koeboeng, at an altitude of 
870 meter. — Iris dark brown, bill black, feet leaden gray. 
Living in the undergrowth of the virgin forest. 
Hab. From South India and Ceylon eastwards through 
Burma and Tenasserim to Siam and Cochin China, Su- 
matra and Borneo. On the latter island it has been dis- 
covered by Mr. Whitehead on Mount Kina Balu, and was 
afterwards also found on Mount Dulit and Mount Malu 
by Mr. Ch. Hose, and on Mount Penrisen and Mount Poeh 
by Mr. A. H. Everett, 
The immature male is still wearing the plumage of the 
young bird, which does not differ from that of the female, 
but here and there on the brown head and back can be 
seen some beginnings of the glossy black plumage of the 
adult male. The rump in the male and both females is 
1) According to Dr. Sharpe (1. ¢.) this species is found as far north as 
Tenasserim, but Mr. Oates, Fauna of Brit. India Birds, Vol. I, p. 473, be- 
lieves that it does not range farther north than Malacca. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. X XI. 
