260 BIRDS OF THE 
collected by Schwaner in South Borneo and registered as 
a young male of M. cyaneus (Horsf.) is a little larger than 
the adult male. 
This species was found near my above-mentioned sta- 
tion (784 m. above the level of the sea), at the foot of 
the high rocks which bear the top-plateau of the moun- 
tain and over which are dashing down a great number 
of waterfalls. Along the small rivulets fed by the water- 
falls and running through the high forest which covers 
the slope of the mountain, the birds were found running 
up and down the rocky banks or frequenting the thick 
underwood, uttering some soft, melodious notes and scratch- 
ing the ground and turning over dead leaves and other 
decaying matter in search for insects and small molluses. 
In a narrow hole of the perpendicular rock near the sta- 
tion, about five feet from the ground, we found a nest of 
this species, and having shot the male, we a few days 
afterwards took the female, which had not stopped breeding, 
with nest and eggs during night-time. The nest forms a 
rather thick and solid construction of moss, and the cup 
is neatly lined with black rootlets and a few dead leaves, 
no mud being used in the whole nest. The length of the 
rather deep cup is 10, the width 8 cm., while the diameter 
of the whole nest is about 17. Directly behind this nest 
and even connected with it we found two empty and pro- 
bably old ones of the same size and construction. The hole 
being rather narrow and deep, I only succeeded in getting 
the two foremost, which are now, together with the eggs, 
in the Leyden Museum. 
The two eggs — I had in vain waited for more before 
capturing the female — are rather long, slender and 
conical, their color is white with numerous minute pale 
reddish punctulations, which are rather more concentrated 
round the thicker pole. Longer axis 4cm., shorter 2,2. 
From the fact that the two eggs already contained fairly 
developed young birds, and that during a weeks waiting 
no new eggs were laid, considering further that Charles 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. X XI. 
