FASCICULI MALATENSES 
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A nest of this species known as the Burong hujan-hujan was found 
at Mabek, on July 22nd, in secondary jungle, suspended from the projecting 
limb of a small tree, about eight feet from the ground, and looking like a 
mass of debris left there by a flood. The nesting-chamber was formed in 
the upper portion of an elongate oval, about 270 mm. long, and 360 mm. 
in its greatest diameter, and was entered by a circular hole furnished with an 
eave. The materials were palm fibres, twigs, creepers and aerial roots with 
a few leaves, the inside was neatly lined with grass, and the eggs, which 
were three in number, were deposited on a bed of fresh, green leaves. In 
shape the eggs were slightly elongate ovals, the shell being rather dull, and 
of a pinky-white colour, thickly covered with dark terra-cotta-brown blotches 
fairly evenly distributed, though they form a rather thick zone towards the 
larger end of one egg. Dimensions: A, 26*5 x 19 ; B, 27 x 19*75 ; 
C, 27*5 x 19 mm. 
114. Corydon Sumatran us, Rain. 
Corydon sumatranus, Sharpe , P.Z.S. % 1888, p. 278 ; Harter /, p. 548. 
<f ad. Gedong, South Perak. 1 zdi January. (No. 528) 
The Dusky Broadbill has the iris brown, the orbital skin pink, the bill 
pink, lavender on the tomia and tip of the culmen, and the feet brownish, 
A nest of this species was found at Sungket Tali, Ulu Ben tong, Pahang, 
on the 16th December, 1904. It is a very large pendant pyriform structure 
made of dead creepers, etc., somewhat loosely interwoven, the entrance low 
down on one side, and the lining and foundation formed of flat strips of 
palm-leaf. It was suspended from the end of a ratan thirty feet from the 
ground, and contained three highly incubated eggs. These are rather 
wide, blunt ovals. In all three the ground colour is pinkish-white, but the 
markings vary, one having the small yellowish-brown surface spots and pale 
lavender shell-marks evenly distributed all over the shell ; in a second, the 
spots, though equally fine, are mostly concentrated towards the larger end of 
the shell, the smaller end being almost devoid of markings ; while in the 
third the spots are larger, the majority being clustered round the larger end^ 
and the remainder sparingly scattered over the rest of the shell. The 
measurements in all three are 1*2 x ‘95 inch. 
PICIDAE 
115. Sasia abnormis, (Temm,) 
Sasia abnormis, Sharpe, P.Z.S 1888, p. 279, 
Sasia abnormis everetti, Hargitt, Hartert y p. 547. 
$ad. Bukit Besar. 2,500 feet. 5th and nth May, (No. 59) 
