222 BIRDS OF THE 
An adult female from Poelau; another female, with nest 
and eggs, from the Upper Sibau River. — Iris fire-red, bill 
black, feet flesh-color. — The nest is placed in shrubs about 
three or four feet above the ground and consists of a nice 
and rather deep cup of rootlets, grass-stems and broad 
leaves; its size is about that of a Finch’s nest. 
Hab. Tenasserim and Malay Peninsula, Nias, Sumatra 
and Borneo. 
161. Laedorusa simplex. 
Pycnonotus simplex Less. Rev. Zool. 1889, p. 167; Sharpe, Cat. B. 
Br. Mus, VI, p. 153; id. Ibis 1889, p. 276; Everett, L. B. Born. 
. 115. 
tetas simpler Biittik. N. L. M. 1895/6, p. 240, 
A great series collected at Pontianak, Smitau, Roema 
.Manoeal, Mounts Kenepai and Liang Koeboeng, in the 
Sibau valley, and at Long Bloe, Upper Mahakkam. — Iris 
red, bill black, feet pale brown. — This species is very easily 
mistaken for Jole olivacea from which it can hardly be 
distinguished in color; but it is of a considerably smaller 
size, the bill is much smaller and less stretched, and the 
iris is red instead of white. 
Hab. From Tenasserim down the Malay Peninsula, Nias, 
Sumatra, Java and Borneo, where it is distributed over 
the whole island. 
162. Laedorusa pusilla. 
Pycnonotus simplex (nec Less.) Bp. Consp. I, p. 263 (ex Kuhl M. 8. 
in Mus. Lugd.). 
Pyenonotus pusillus (nee Blyth) Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 200 (1874); 
Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. VI, p. 155. 
Pycnonotus Salvadorii Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. VI, p. 401; Everett, 
L. B. Born. p. 115; Hose, Ibis 1898, p. 391; Sharpe, Ibis 1893, 
pp. 547 and 551. 
Laedorusa pusilla Biittik. N. L. M. 1895/6, p. 241. 
A great number of specimens from Mounts Kenepai and 
Liang Koeboeng, from the Sibau River and the Upper 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. X XI. 
