916 BIRDS OF THE 
145. Arachnothera modesta. 
Anthreptes modesia Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105. 
Arachnothera modesta Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 188; Bittik. N. L. M. 
1887, p. 57; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 137. 
Three specimens from Pontianak and Mount Kenepai. — 
Tris brown, bill brown, lower mandible horny, feet flesh-color. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra (Mus. Iugd., see my 
above-quoted comparative note on A. modesta and A. af- 
jinis) and Borneo. 
-146. Arachnothera Rooretii. 
Arachnothera modesta Sharpe, Ibis 1889, p. 425. 
Arachnoraphis Everetti Sharpe, Ibis 18938, p. 561; Whitehead, Ibis 
1894, p. 316. 
An adult female from the Liang Koeboeng range and an 
adult male from the Upper Mahakkam, collected by Dr. Nieu- 
wenhuis in January 1899. — Iris brown, bill black, lower 
mandible horny, feet flesh-color. 
Hab. Mountain regions of Borneo: Kina Balu (White- 
head), Mount Penrisen (A. H. Everett) and the two above- 
mentioned localities. 
This species stands between A. modesta and the Java- 
nese A, affinis. With the first it agrees in the olive-green 
(not golden green) tinge on the upper surface, and with 
the latter in showing the dark shaft-streaks more distinctly 
and extending also over the abdomen, and in being larger 
than A. modesta. The single specimen obtained on the 
Liang Koeboeng agrees fairly well with a specimen from 
the Kina Balu in the Leyden Museum but is somewhat 
less strongly striped and somewhat smaller. It must be 
observed, however, that the size is not very constant in 
either of these species, and that the stronger shaft- 
streaks do not hold well in all the specimens of the 
present species, so that the validity of this species seems 
somewhat doubtful. According to Mr. Whitehead (1. c.) the 
specimens from the Kina Balu, enumerated by Sharpe in 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXI. 
