418 Mr. E. B. Sharpens Contributions to the 
rufous lores of his female dressThe plumage of the head 
has been somewhat disarranged in the skinning of the bird, 
and the loral plumes so placed as to make it appear as if 
the bird had a rufous forehead; from the same reason a blue 
feather appears in the upper throat, which seems to me to 
have been forced out of position from the cheeks. It was 
the presence of these blue feathers in the upper throat that 
induced Mr. Wallace to describe the chin as blue-black; 
but in reality the chin is rufous, and then just below occur 
these straggling plumes, which, as I think, are due to the 
preparation of the skins *. That the bird is not quite adult is 
shown by the fact of the orange tips remaining on some of 
the wing-coverts ; and the blue is not so bright as in the adult 
bird. The type of Salvadori^s C. beccariana must have been 
in very similar plumage, being nearly in full dress but re¬ 
taining the rufous lores of an earlier stage. 
9. Cyornis unicolor, Blyth. 
Cyornis cyanopolia (Boie); Salvad. t. c. p. 132. 
Mr. Blyth has stated that a Bornean example of this species 
exists in the Leyden Museum j and the question of the locality 
is now settled by Mr. Everett, who sends an adult male, 
a female, and a young individual moulting out of its mottled 
or Bobin-like plumage. I have compared it with specimens 
from Malacca and the Eastern Himalayas (the latter pre¬ 
sented to the Museum by Mr. L. Mandelli), and I find the 
specimens from all these localities identical. 
10. Timelia leucotis, Strickl.; Gray, Handl. B. i. p. 315, 
no. 4697. 
Another bird new to Borneo. Compared with Malaccan 
and Javan examples. 
11. IxiDIA PAROTICALIS, Sp. n. 
I. similis I. cyaniventri, sed major : colore capitis schistaceo, 
undique saturatiore : plaga anteoculari triangulari, genis, 
* [The introduction of these erroneous characters into the description 
of C. rvfifrons, together with the inappropriateness of the name, would, 
as it seems to us, justify the rejection of Mr. Wallace’s title altogether 
in favour of the next-given name.—E dd.] 
