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I first met with this bird on Kina Balu, at ahont 3000 feet, where it was somewhat scarce, but I 
never saw it higher up the mountain. It is fond of sitting about in open places, hawking for insects, hut 
it is also sometimes observed hopping about in the high trees. The young seem to be two in number.] 
39. Hemipxjs obscurus (Horsf.). 
[This is evidently a bird of the low country, but it ascends Kina Balu to a height of 1000 feet. 
Above that altitude its place is almost immediately taken by the next species. I found it in Malacca and 
again in Java,but in neither locality at any great height. Iris brown ; feet brownish black; bill black.] 
40. Hemipxjs picatus, Sykes. 
This species is new to Borneo, and on comparison with Tenasserim and Himalayan specimens, I am 
unable to find the slightest variation. 
[Iris, bill, and feet black. Found on Kina Balu from 3000 to 4000 feet, frequenting the lower 
growth in search of food. This is a difficult bird to preserve, the skin being so tender. It is not a 
Flycatcher in its habits, but is a thorough Wood-Slirike, like Tephrodornis. I noticed them in small 
families of four or five together ; they were not met with above 4000 feet altitude.] 
41. Platylophus coronatus (RaffL). 
[I have met with this bird only in the low growth of the forests, as high as 3000 feet on Kina Balu. 
I also procured it at Benkoka.] 
Suborder TURDIFORMES. 
Family Campophagid^. . 
42. Graucalus kormani, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult mate. General colour above dark slate-grey; wing-coverts like the back, the greater coverts 
lighter and more ashy ; bastard-wing black ; primary-coverts and quills black, edged externally with 
slate-grey ; the inner secondaries externally entirely pale ash-grey, like the greater coverts ; upper 
tail-coverts like the back; tail-feathers black, edged with slate-grey, the two centre feathers dull grey 
for two-thirds of their length, the outer ones tipped with ashy ; crown of head dark slate-grey, a little 
deeper in shade than the back ; forehead, eyebrow, sides of crown, ear-covei’ts, cheeks, and throat glossy 
blue-black, shading off into slate-colour on the fore neck ; remainder of under surface of body dark slate- 
grey, like the back ; thighs, under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries like the breast; quills 
below dusky, light ashy along the inner web. Total length 104 inches, culmen 1, wing 5*9, tail 4'1, 
tarsus 1. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but without any black on the forehead or throat; the lores, 
feathers round the eye, sides of face, and ear-coverts glossy black. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0'95, 
wing 5’55, tail 4, tarsus 0'9. 
The young bird is like the female, but with remains of ashy whitish edges to the feathers of the 
abdomen, while the under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts are barred with white. The female is 
very closely allied to Artamides concretus of Java, but the latter has an evident white quill-lining. Its 
nearest ally is doubtless A. melanocephalus (Salvadori), from Mount Singalan in Sumatra. 
[Apparently the only species found on Kina Balu, as A. sumatrensis was not met with. It is found 
between 3000 and 5000 feet, frequenting the old forest, but it is by no means a common bird anywhere. 
Bill, feet, and iris black.] 
43. Artamides sumatrensis (S. Mull.). 
[Iris straw-yellow ; bill and feet black, the soles of the latter yellow. The only place that I met 
with this species in Borneo was in Benkoka, where I found a few individuals, always flying very high ; 
indeed it was some time before I succeeded in getting specimens, all of which were shot from very high 
trees.] 
