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of bird's-dung fallen upon a leaf. This spider was described 

 by H. O. Forbes in his '* Wanderings of a Naturalist" and 

 by the Rev. O. PiCKARD CAMBRIDGE, in thesame work. During 

 a visit to Gunong Panti in Johor, I was pleased to meet with 

 a species aparently of this genus, which was engaged in 

 sucking the juice of a red bug, which it had captured. FORBES 

 describes and figures his species as spinning a thin web upon 

 a leaf to represent the watery portion of the excreta and 

 then lying upon its back on the web to which it holds by some 

 strong spines on the back of its legs, it waits for some in- 

 cautious butterfly to alight on the supposed bird's dropping, 

 when it immediately secures the prey. The specimen I found 

 had left its web, a thin circular white film on the leaf of a 

 wild plantain, to dev^our its capture. On comparing it with 

 the descriptions above quoted, I find that, in the colouring of 

 the body and several structural points, the Gunong Panti 

 spider differs form FORBES' Ornithoscatoides decipieiis, 

 collected in Java and Sumatra, and it is probably a distinct 

 species. 



H. N. R. 



NOTES ON GALLUS VIOLACEUS. 



In the description of Callus znolaceiis in No. 24 of this Journal 

 page 167 3rd line from foot of page for 'shaded' read 'shafted' 



,, 168 1st line ,, do. ,, do. 



,, 168 8th line ,, 'brown' ,, 'horn.' 



Two more specimens (both males) of this bird have recently 

 come under my notice. They were in the possession of a 

 native animal dealer in Sing"apore but he could not give me 

 any definite information as to where they came from. He 

 said he thought they came from Java but was not certain and 

 it is far more probable that they come from further east. 



H. J. K. 



