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axillaries brown, with longitudinal whitish centres ; quills below dark brown, ashy brownish along the 
inner edge. Total length 7 inches, culmen 2, wing 3'4, tail 2, tarsus 0'7. 
[This Spider-hunter, one of the finest of my discoveries, was scarce on Kina Balu. During 
my first expedition I only obtained one specimen, and altogether, by carefully watching some high trees 
in a large forest for a month, we collected six specimens. These birds seldom left the orchids and 
other plants which flower on the tops of the highest trees. In the month of March a young bird 
was obtained which was like the adults, but less distinctly marked on the breast and back, the white 
stripe in the centre of the feathers in the young bird having a decided yellowish tinge, while the yellow 
of the rump and vent is not so bright as in the old birds. The food of this species is not entirely insects, 
as one specimen had several small berries in the throat. Bill, feet, and iris black.] 
154. Anthothreptes malaccensis (Scop.). 
[One of the commonest Sun-birds, especially in the neighbourhood of coco -nut plantations, where 
it finds abundant food amongst the flowers of the young nuts. 
The nest is a pocket, suspended from a branch in some tangled bush, and is much more open at the 
mouth in proportion than that of Cinnyris pectoralis ; it is made of grass-stems, and lined with the down 
off the “ lalang ” grass, and bound together by spiders' 5 web. Eggs two, dull pink, thickly scribbled over 
with grey, spotted and sprinkled over with black, after the manner of some Buntings’. Axis 0'7 inch, 
diam. 0‘55. Iris hazel; feet greenish brown ; bill black.] 
155. Anthothreptes phcenicotis (T.). 
[Met with at 1000 feet on Kina Balu. Iris reddish brown; feet yellowish green; bill black.] 
150. Arachnothera affinis, var. nov. 
[This is the Bornean representative form of A. affinis of Java, differing from that species in being of 
a more golden green on the back, the Javan bird being brownish green. This species was overlooked by 
Dr. Sharpe, and entered as A. modesta in 1 The Ibis ’; he is shortly to describe it under a new specific 
name. This bird was obtained by me for the first time in Borneo. 
Fairly common in old forest. Met with on Kina Balu up to 4000 feet. This species makes 
a beautiful cup-like nest, which it suspends from the underside of some large leaf. The nest is fastened 
to the leaf by spiders’ web, which is sewn through. It is composed of a bright brown silky substance, 
which is found on the young fronds of ferns; a good deal of white down from seeds is also used. The 
outside is covered with small flower- and plant-stems, stuck together with spiders’ web. 
The eggs are two in number, of a deep olive-brown, mottled and clouded all over with grey specks, 
sometimes with a well-marked zone of black spots and blotches. I took several nests about the middle 
of March on the spurs of Kina Balu. Axis 095 inch, diam. 07. 
Native name “ Sussut busar.” “ Sussut” in Kadyan means “lost,” “ busar ” “big,” that is in 
comparison with A. longirostris. As both species have a peculiar habit of flying low and fast through 
the jungle, uttering their peculiar call-note at short intervals, the natives may have imagined that the bird 
is “ lost.” This species is one of the bird-omens of some tribes. Iris and upper mandible black, lower 
one brown ; feet dull flesh-colour.] 
157. Arachnothera longirostris (Lath.). 
[Fairly common in old forest. It reaches an altitude of nearly 3000 feet on Kina Balu. 
The nest is different from that of A. affinis, the entire structure being sewn on to the underside 
of some large leaf, which forms one side of a pocket. The building-materials are dead leaves. The nest 
I have is unfortunately unfinished. 
Native name “ Sussut.”] 
158. Arachnothera chrysogenys, Temm. 
[Iris black ; bill black, yellowish at base ; feet dull pink.] 
