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the forehead and lores ashy blackish ; feathers round eye and ear-coverts dull ashy, washed with rufous 
and having obscure dusky streaks ; cheeks blackish, streaked with white, with which the feathers are 
edged ; throat and fore neck white, washed with yellow and strongly marked with triangular spots of 
black, more longitudinal on the latter ; breast pale sulphur-yellow, streaked with dusky blackish ; 
abdomen rather whiter ; sides of body and flanks uniform ashy olive-brown ; thighs brown, with hoary 
whitish edges ; under tail-coverts dull sulphur-yellow ; under wing-c-overts and axillaries clear sulphur- 
yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 5'6 inches, culmen 065, wing 
2'45, tail 2, tarsus 085. 
[Fairly common at an altitude of 1000 feet on Kina Balu, frequenting the old clearings, where it 
creeps about amongst the coarse grasses and dense masses of undergrowth within a few feet of the 
ground. In the early mornings this little bird may be heard uttering a loud bell-like note, which it 
ends up with “ Chou cliou buckier buckier,” uttered as sharply as with its relation M. borneensis. 
The nest is a small loosely-constructed ball of broad grass-stems entered by a hole in the side ; it is 
generally placed within a foot of the ground amongst dead ferns or coarse grasses. The eggs are three 
in number, white spotted all over with pale pink spots, and may be found from the middle of January to 
March. Axis 075 inch, diam. 055. Iris light yellow.] 
Androphilus *, gen. n. 
Genus simile generi “ Eldplirornis ” dicto, sed plumulis nuchalibus absentibus distinguendum. 
The type is 
139. Androphilus accentor, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. General colour above uniform rufous brown or dark chestnut, the feathers of the lower 
back and rump extremely lax ; upper tail-coverts like the rump ; wing-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers 
dusky browm, edged with the same colour as the back; crowm of head a little more dingy than the back ; 
lores dusky, surmounted by a line of dusky grey, scarcely forming an eyebrow ; sides of face and 
ear-coverts reddish brown, washed with grey, w r ith ashy shaft-lines ; cheeks and sides of throat dark 
slaty grey, spotted with black, especially along the malar line ; throat ashy white, spotted with black ; 
sides of neck rufous brown, washed with grey ; fore neck and breast light slaty grey, the former with 
black spots ; abdomen ashy whitish, washed with rufous browm ; sides of body and flanks dark rufous 
brown, as also the thighs and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dusky brown, with 
rufous edges ; quills below r dusky brown, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 5*8 inches, culmen 
06, wing 2 - 3, tail 2’35, tarsus 095. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but with less grey on the face and chest, which are more rufous 
brown. Total length 6 inches, culmen 06, wing 2-2, tail 2 - 4, tarsus 09. 
“ A peculiar little bird, with a throat like an Alpine Accentor.” 
I have chosen the generic name from the extraordinary tameness of this bird and the Brachypteryx , 
both of which, Mr. Whitehead says, were difficult to shoot from their persistence in closely following 
the observer. 
[This species invariably sought us out, and would appear almost under one’s toes, following for 
several yards, along the forest-paths. My men often tried to knock them down with their head-cloths. 
If this bird ever frequented the lower altitudes of Kina Balu it has long since been exterminated by the 
Dusun rat-traps, which no doubt account for its scarcity at the altitudes which it now frequents. 
Iris dark browm ; upper mandible black, the lower one greyish brown at base ; legs dark brown. 
I only met this species at from 7000 to 9000 feet, where it frequented the dark and damp patches 
of forest, amongst the wet moss-covered fallen trunks of large trees, -where this peculiar bird was found 
singly. The first individual of this species I took for a mouse, as it crept about within a few yards of my 
feet ; it was quite ten minutes before I could get a shot, the bird following me for several yards.] 
* avr/p, homo ; ipi\eu>, amo. 
