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Mr. R. B. Sharpens Contributions to the 
3. Chrysococcyx basalis (Horsf.); Salvad. t. c. p. 62. 
Not previously noticed from Sarawak. Mr. Everetksbird 
bears the following label:—Male. Tagora, Dec. 17, 1877. 
Eyelids and iris bright red; bill black.^^ 
4. Carpococcyx radiatus (Temm.) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 76. 
Not previously known from Saraw^ak. 
5. Batrachostomus stellatus (Gould); Salvad. t. c. p. 
113 j Tweeddale^ P. Z. S. 1877, p. 436, pi. xlvii. 
An adult specimen in rufous browm dress. Doria also 
obtained one at Sarawak; and Lord Tweeddale also possesses 
an example, collected at Bedi, North-western Borneo, by 
Mr. Alfred Everett. 
6. Tephrodornis gularis (Raffl.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. 
p. 278. 
An adult bird. 
7. Stoparola thalassoides (Cab.); Salvad. t. c. p. 133. 
An adult example. 
8. Cyornis rufiprons, M^all.; Salvad. t.c. p. 131. 
Cyornis beccariana, Salvad. t. c. p. 131. 
Mr. Everett has sent a series of this very fine species, 
which enables me to settle the vexed question regarding the 
names C. rufifrons and C. beccariana, as I have now before 
me adult males, an adult female, and a young male; and I 
can afiirm that Count SalvadorPs type specimens of C. bec¬ 
cariana could not have been quite adult, any more than the 
t^^pe of Mr. Wallace's C. rufifrons is. The following is a 
description of the species in several stages :— 
Adult male. General colour above bright smalt-blue, the 
crown deep ultramarine, causing the eyebrow and forehead, 
which are bright smalt-blue, to stand out in bold relief; sca¬ 
pulars and median wing-coverts ultramarine, with a slight wash 
of smalt-blue; the lesser coverts bright smalt-blue; greater 
coverts, primary-coverts, and quills black, edged with ultra- 
marine; tail-feathers black, all but the outer one on each 
side externally bright blue, richer ultramarine than the wings, 
and not so brilliant as the back ; feathers in front of the eye 
