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and rump bright golden chestnut broadly shaded with metallic 

 purple and black. Tail black glossed with metallic purple, 

 metallic green at base. Under tail-coverts olive black glossed 

 with metallic green and purple. Feathers of the throat black 

 streaked with chestnut. Abdomen blackish slightly glossed 

 with purple. Feathers of and vent black tipped with chestnut. 

 Under side of wings dark brown with a silvery sheen. Irides 

 yellow ochre. Bill light brown, darker at base. Legs pinkish 

 white. Claws whitish. 



In the specimen described, there are one or two irregular 

 white blotches on the quills of the wings. 



Total length (living bird) about 28 inches. Wing 9 inches. 

 Bill from gape 1.0 inch. Tarsus 3.5 inches. 



H. J. KELSALL. 



A LARGE MIAS IN SINGAPORE. 



There was in Singapore in November last one of the largest, 

 if not the largest, Mias that has ever been captured. It was 

 a male and probably of the species known as Simia satyrus, 

 Linn., or the Mias Pappan of the Dyaks. He was cap- 

 tured in Borneo, and bought by a native dealer in Singapore, 

 who eventually sold him to a German ship's captain, by whom 

 he has been, it is believed, taken to Germany. 



As far as I could judge, his height must have been close on 

 4 feet 5 inches. The cage in which he was confined was 

 4 feet 2 inches or thereabouts in height, and he could easily 

 touch the top of it with his head without standing erect. His 

 face was immensely broad, the cheeks being flattened out 

 sideways into a sort of disc. The hair was long (about 

 4 inches) and thick and of a bright red colour and he had a 

 distinct short pointed beard. The eyes dark brown. 



WALLACE in the Malay Archipelago, chap. 4, discusses the 

 size of the Mias at some length, and concludes by saying "on 

 the whole, therefore, I think it will be allowed that up to this 



