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APPENDIX. 
Family Meliphagid^e. 
159. ZOSTEKOPS AURIVENTER, Hume. 
The specimens from Kina Balu cannot be separated from Tenasserim examples. 
[Fairly common on the lower spurs of Kina Balu, frequenting the more open spaces, flying in 
twittering flocks amongst the tops of small trees.] 
160. Zosterops clara, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. General colour above clear greenish yellow, the rump and upper tail-coverts scarcely 
lighter than the back ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing black ; primary-coverts and quills 
blackish, externally greenish yellow, a little lighter on the primaries, the innermost secondaries like the 
back ; tail-feathers blackish, narrowly margined with greenish yellow ; crown of head like the back ; the 
forehead and lores as well as the feathers at the base of the bill blackish, extending on the forehead across 
the centre of each eye ; feathers round eye silky white, except in front, where they are blackish; ear- 
coverts and cheeks greenish yellow ; throat clearer yellow ; sides of neck like the back ; fore neck, chest, 
sides of body, and flanks pure bluish grey ; centre of breast, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts clear 
yellow; under wing-coverts and axillaries silky white ; quills below dusky, white along the inner edge. 
Total length 4 inches, culmen 055, wing 2*05, tail 1'4, tarsus 06. 
Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4 inches, culmen 05, wing 2*05, tail 1*35, 
tarsus 06. 
[Met with only in one locality on Kina Balu, at about 5000 feet. I found a nest of this species, 
wdiich was built of fine roots on the underside of a moss-covered bough, in the dark damp forests on the 
slopes of the mountain. The old birds were feeding their young on grubs.] 
Family Dicleid^e. 
161. Dictum monticoltjm, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. General colour above glossy purplish blue ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 
and greater coverts, bastard-wing, and primary-coverts black, edged with purplish blue ; quills black, the 
secondaries edged with purplish blue ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers blue-black ; crown 
of head glossy purplish blue, like the back ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks blackish, slightly 
glossed with purplish blue ; chin whitish ; throat, fore neck, and breast bright scarlet, followed by a large 
patch of dark ashy on the lower breast and abdomen ; sides of upper breast dark slaty grey ; abdomen 
ashy, slightly washed with olive, yellowish white towards the vent; sides of body and flanks dull olive- 
yellow ; thighs dark ashy; under tail-coverts pale saffron-yellow; under wing-coverts and axillaries 
white ; quills below blackish, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 3'7 inches, culmen 04, wing T95, 
tail 1T5, tarsus 0’5. 
The affinity of this species with Dicceum sulaense instead of with D. celebicum is most interesting. 
The steel-blue colour of the back separates the Kina Balu bird from both, but it has olive-yellow flanks 
like D. sulaense. Of the latter species the female is at present undescribed, but between the hens of 
D. celebicum and D. monticola there is a great difference, the female of the Celebean bird being dull 
purplish, while the female of D. monticola is olive-yellowish on the back, clearer olive-yellow on the rump 
and upper tail-coverts ; the head dusky steel-green washed with olive ; wing-coverts blackish, with a 
steel-green gloss, and edged with olive-yellow ; quills blackish, with narrow olive edges ; tail-feathers 
blue-black ; sides of face dull ashy shaded with olive, as also the cheeks, with a grey shade over the sides 
of the fore neck and chest; throat white, gradually turning to pale oclireous yellow on the breast and 
abdomen and under tail-coverts ; sides of body olive ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and quill-lining 
white, with a yellow tinge. Total length 3 - 2 inches, culmen 04, wing 1*85, tail 0’95, tarsus 0'5. 
The young bird resembles the adult female, but has the base of the bill yellowish white and the 
colours duller ; the head olive like the back; the throat pale ashy grey, this colour extending over the 
breast. 
