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to the sides of the occiput ; feathers round eye whitish ; ear-coverts light ashy grey, with a slight wash 
of olive-yellow ; cheeks also ashy, white on the fore part ; throat also white, tinged with yellow 
towards the fore neck; remainder of under surface of body bright yellow, a little more olive on the sides 
of the upper breast; thighs and under tail-coverts also bright yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 
yellow', with white bases ; quills below dusky, light tawny along the inner edge. Total length 4*1 inches, 
culmen 0'45, wing 2*15, tail 1*75, tarsus 07. 
AcluJt female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 1*9, 
tail 1*5, tarsus 0*65. 
All Mr. Whitehead’s specimens are similar. 
[Inhabits the tangled bamboo-jungle on the steep sides of Kina Balu, at an elevation of from 3000 
to 5000 feet. It has a very pleasing song, and creeps about with very much the habits of a Willow 
Warbler. Iris black ; bill black ; feet dull greenish brown.] 
71. CKYPTOLorHA montis, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. General colour above dull olive-green, a little more yellow on the lower wdngs and 
upper tail-coverts, the latter being olive-green with yellow tips ; lesser wing-coverts blackish, with dull 
olive-yellow ends ; median and greater coverts blackish, edged with olive-green and tipped with yellow, 
forming a double wing-bar, the second one rather yellowish w*hite ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 
quills blackish, edged with olive-green, rather more yellow on the margins of the primaries ; tail-feathers 
dusky ashy brown, edged with olive-green, with a narrow whitish tip to the outer ones ; crown of head, 
occiput, and nape chestnut, extending on to the hind neck ; sides of crown also chestnut, with a broad 
band of black running down the crown from above the eye to the sides of the neck ; lores yellowish ; 
eyelid white ; ear-coverts and sides of face chestnut; cheeks bright yellow, becoming rufous posteriorly ; 
throat and under surface of body bright yellow, with a wash of rufous on the sides of the upper breast ; 
thighs and under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries bright yellow, the greater series of under 
wing-coverts with white bases ; quills below dusky, yellowish white along the inner edge. Total length 
3*6 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2, tail 1*5, tarsus 0*65. 
The nearest ally of this species is Cryploloplia castaneiceps ; but it is easily recognized by its chestnut 
ear-coverts and entirely yellow under surface. 
The female is exactly like the male in colour, and measures :—Total length 3*6 inches, culmen 0*35, 
wing 1*8, tail 1*45, tarsus 0*65. 
[I first met with this little Flycatcher at 4000 feet, on my first expedition to Ivina Balu, when I 
procured a single specimen. At 8000 feet, where I fell in with it again during my second ascent of the 
mountain, it was much more plentiful. It has a peculiar habit of hovering below the leaves of the big 
trees and suddenly flying up and snatching an insect. It is most often met with in the thick bamboo 
undergrowth.] 
72. Stoparola cerviniventris, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. General colour above blue as far as the upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts brighter 
blue, inclining to cobalt ; median and greater coverts blackish, edged with dull cobalt ; bastard-wing 
black, with a slight blue edging ; primary-coverts and quills black, edged with bright blue, clearer and 
paler on the outer webs of the inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts black ; tail-feathers black, edged with 
blue, all but the two centre feathers with broad white bases ; crown of head like the back, with a black 
band across the forehead, this succeeded by a band of silvery cobalt, extending backwards above the eye ; 
eyelid, and feathers above and round the eye, black ; ear-coverts and cheeks deep blue, the latter black 
anteriorly, as well as the chin ; throat and under surface of body blue, the lower breast washed with hoary 
whitish edges ; abdomen and under tail-coverts light fawn-buff, increasing in depth of colour on the 
latter , sides of body and flanks ashy blue, the lower flanks pale fawn-colour ; thighs blue, with whitish 
margins ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale fawn-buff, the edge of the wing blue ; quills below 
dusky, ashy whitish on the inner edge. 
