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same elevation. The males procured on the 24th and 26th of March were in most beautiful plumage, and 
had evidently assumed their full nuptial dress before flying northwards. They are only winter visitants 
to Northern Borneo. Iris, bill, and feet black.] 
58. Tarsiger hodgsoni (Moore). 
I cannot see the slightest difference between the pair sent by Mr. Whitehead and a pair collected in 
Sikkim by Mandelli; and this is the more curious as no one had previously found the species out of the 
Himalayas, where its range is also very limited, extending merely from Nepal to Sikkim. It has not as 
yet been met with in Tenasserim, the Malayan Peninsula, or Sumatra, and the reappearance of the species 
in Borneo is rather surprising. 
[I only came across this beautiful species on my first expedition to Kina Balu, when I procured a 
pair at about 4000 feet elevation. Both sexes had the iris and bill black, and the legs greyish blue.] 
59. Hypothymis occipitalis (Vig.). 
[I first met with this Flycatcher in Malacca, and in Borneo on the Lawas River, and at Benkoka on 
the north coast of the island. I found it nesting both on the Padas River on the 12th of June, and in 
Palawan, and caught the hen bird on both occasions. The nest, however, and the eggs of the Palawan bird 
are strikingly different from the Bornean ones. On the Padas the nest was situated about five feet 
from the ground. It is a firmly made little cup, constructed of twigs and lined with fine roots, and 
was placed in a large plant in the undergrowth. The eggs have the appearance of those of the Garden 
Warbler of Europe ; they are creamy white, blotched and spotted with brown, and have some large 
underlying spots of grey, chiefly at the larger end. 
The nest which I found in Palawan forms a great contrast to the neat little structure of the Padas. It 
is not only smaller, but is inartistically constructed, in the loosest manner, of fine roots and spiders’ webs 
&c., but the whole structure was so frail as almost to fall to pieces. The eggs, though somewhat similar 
in type of marking to those of the Padas bird, are different in colour, being of a light salmon-pink, 
broadly blotched with red, and showing smaller spots of red and grey. The markings are chiefly 
collected round the larger end, and the eggs more resemble those of the Common Flycatcher of Europe. 
I procured this species on Kina Balu, up to a height of 1000 feet.] 
60. Rhipidura albicollis (Vieill.). 
Apparently quite the same as specimens from Tenasserim. The female is only a little greyer than 
the male, and is not quite so deep a black, but there is really very little difference in the sexes. 
[Iris, bill, and feet black. Met with on the first expedition at 4000 feet, and again on the second 
ascent at the same elevation. It ascends Kina Balu to quite 9000 feet; this species, unlike R. javanica, 
frequents thick forest, and does not approach the haunts of man.] 
61. Rhipidura perlata (S. Miill.). 
[Apparently rare. I only met with it on one occasion.] 
62. Rhipidura javanica (Sparrm.). 
[This Fantail is common in Labuan, appearing in all the native clearings and often entering the 
verandahs of the houses in search of insects. It loves to frequent the lower boughs of trees, often settling- 
on the ground, where it expands its fan-like tail and droops its wings. It is altogether a very graceful 
little bird. Its note is a four-syllabled squeaking cry of Kip-kip-pe-wheek,’ with the accent on the 
last syllable. 
Whilst going up the Lawas River in a boat, I often got the men to row close to the 1 Nipa ’ palms, 
which line both sides of the tide-ways of these tropical rivers, and I found several nests of this Flycatcher 
perched on the summit of the broken steins of the dead palms. Eggs taken on the Lawas on the 8th of 
April, 1886, agree with the description given by Mr. Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 337) ; but the grey spots 
are more collected round the middle of the egg.] 
