DUTCH BORNEO-EXPEDITION, 255 
Asia and passes the winter-months in Southern Asia and 
the Malay Archipelago; in Borneo it is recorded from the 
North-East (Beccari, Everett, Ussher, Low, Treacher, White- 
head), Borneo (Mus. Lugd.). 
Saxicolidae. 
225. Cittocincla suavis. 
Copsychus suavis Sclat. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 185. 
Xiitacincla suavis Salvad. Ucc. Born. 252; Everett, L. B. Borg. p. 100. 
Two adult males and a female, all collected at Nanga 
Raoen, where we found it in low forest, and three speci- 
mens from Poetoes Sibau, the Upper- and the Lower Ma- 
hakkam, collected by Dr. Nieuwenhuis. The specimen from 
the Lower Mahakkam is immature, showing some remnants 
of the brown-spotted dress of the young bird, especially 
on neck and upper wing-coverts. — Iris coffee-brown, bill 
glossy black, feet purplish white. 
The male N° 1254 and the female N° 1255 rubs) 
were shot near their nest (N° 1248) on May 15th in an 
old, deserted plantation. The nest was placed in a hollow 
tree ten feet above the ground, and consists of a coating 
of dead leaves lined with rootlets, small feathers and the 
abdominal scales of a snake. It contained two eggs of a 
bluish green color, very thickly speckled all over with 
reddish brown. Size of the eggs 2,3 1,8 cm. As both 
eggs were already fairly set, it is very probable that two 
is the regular number of the clutch in this species. 
This exclusively Bornean species is known from the south- 
eastern, southern, western, north-western and central parts 
of the island. In the North it is represented by the white- 
crowned C. Stricklandi Motley & Dillwyn. 
»Kin fusserst gewandter, munterer, doch sehr scheuer 
Vogel. In stets aufgerichteter Stellung, doch unruhig, sieht 
er sich immerwahrend nach allen Seiten um, und mit stark 
ausgebreiteten Schwung- und Schwanzfedern, etwas bogen- 
formig gehaltenen und stark bewegten Fligeln und wip- 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXI. 
