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makes a large nest like a ball, composed of coarse grasses and lined with finer leaves, in which it lays two 
glossy white eggs, about the middle of January, those found having been taken on the 20th of that 
month ; axis 0‘95 inch, diam. 0‘7. Eye pale yellow ; bill dirty white, except at the base of the upper 
mandible, where it is black ; legs pale slaty blue.] 
122 . Garrulax schistochlamys, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. Slaty grey on the head, mantle, and back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts as 
w r ell as the scapulars and wings chestnut-brown, the primaries externally paler and more fulvous brown ; 
centre tail-feathers deep chestnut-brown, the remainder blackish, externally deep chestnut; lores and base 
of forehead blackish, extending below the eye; ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, and under surface of 
body light slaty grey, with blackish shaft-streaks to the feathers of the throat ; sides of body and flanks, 
thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts light chestnut-brown ; under wing-coverts dusky, washed wdth rufous ; 
quills dusky brown below, ashy rufous along the inner web. Total length 9'5 inches, culmen 1*1, 
wing 4 - 7, tail 4'15, tarsus 1*6. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather lighter in colour. Total length 10 inches, culmen 1'05, 
wing 5 - 0, tail 4’15, tarsus 1’65. 
[1 only met with this species at my last camp, where it frequented the true forest, at an altitude of 
4000 feet, feeding amongst the higher branches of large trees. Small bands of five individuals w'ere 
observed, being probably the old and young birds of the year. Iris lake-red, with a fairly large sub¬ 
ocular patch of bare skin of a pale blue colour, almost white ; bill black ; feet dark brown.] 
123. Rhinocichla treacheri, Sharpe. 
[This species is one of the ornithological features of the lower slopes of Kina Balu, where it frequents 
the low growth which springs up in the old rice-fields. It is found more sparingly at high elevations up 
to 9000 feet in the true forest, so that perhaps it has a wider range on Kina Balu than any other bird. 
Its real head-quarters are, however, the low growth from 700 to 1000 feet, from which point it becomes 
scarcer as one enters the forest or reaches higher elevations. The “ Lahoie,” as the Dusuns call this bird, 
creeps and hops about within a few feet of the ground, or may sometimes be seen amongst the highest 
branches of old forest trees, in parties of four or five, probably an entire family. 
It utters a loud whistling note, which may be heard more frequently in the early morning. This is 
one of the first sounds which attracts the traveller’s attention on entering the Kina Balu region. 
I saw a nest which was built in a long tangled mass of creepers some 30 feet from the ground ; it 
was composed of dead leaves and roots, and contained one bright greenish-blue egg : this was on the 
17th of March. Iris dark lake-red ; bill pale orange-yellow ; skin round eye bright king’s yellow ; feet 
paler yellow.] 
Allocotops *, gen. n. 
Genus simile generi “ Melanocichla ” dicto, sed pileo et genis nudis facile distinguendum. 
The type is 
124. Allocotops calves, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. General colour above dull chocolate-brown ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish 3 
quills and tail-feathers blackish brown, externally dull chocolate-brown ; crown of head, lores, space 
round the eye, cheeks, and sides of throat bare and yellow ; ear-coverts chocolate-brown, like the head ; 
centre of the throat and under surface of body sooty brown, inclining to ashy : “ bare part of head yellow ; 
feet brownish yellow, more brown than yellow” (</. W.). Total length 102 inches, culmen 1 * 1 , wing 5, 
tail 4 - 7, tarsus l 1 15. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, and with an equally bald head. Total length 10 inches, culmen 1, 
wing 4, tail 4-4, tarsus 1’35. 
* aWuKuros, insuetus; facies. 
