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e . ? . Bintulu. Soft parts same as in the male. 
The series which Mr. Everett now brings shows that C. 
salvadorii is most closely allied to C. macrurus ; but the prin¬ 
cipal differences seem to be in the blackish colour of the lores 
and region of the eye,, and the very distinct white cheek-stripe. 
In C. macrurus the lores are reddish, as also is the side of 
the face, and the white cheek-stripe is nearly obsolete. 
[Santubong, Kalakah, Rejang, Bruit, Bintulu. This Goat¬ 
sucker is by no means uncommon in Sarawak; but it is very 
locally distributed, being confined to the coast-line and its 
immediate vicinity, and, so far as my observation has gone, 
to the sandy portion of the coast. The note is single, and 
sounds like the distant stroke of a mallet on wood. The 
eggs are creamy white, with faint purple-grey marblings, and 
they are laid among the short turf which holds the sand 
together beyond high-water mark. The stomachs are gene¬ 
rally full of beetles, chiefly a small green chafer, but also 
longicorns and elaters. It is noteworthy that in places 
haunted by this species one never hears the note of any other 
kind of Goatsucker, although the “ Pongok ” Owl (AT. scu¬ 
tulata) sometimes approaches within a mile of the shore.— 
A. E.] 
Merops bicolor (Bodd.); Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 33. 
[An abundant species, but confined to the sandy tracts on 
the shore-line, though a pair will be met with now and again 
as far as 20 miles inland, where a sandy bank happens to 
offer facilities for nidification. A female shot in April had 
a shelled egg in the oviduct. I am inclined to think these birds 
are migratory, but am not yet satisfied on this point. A pair 
shot May 20, 1870, showed no difference in plumage; but 
two females shot in August 1873 had the chestnut of the 
crown dashed with rich dark green. The only external dif¬ 
ferences between the sexes are that the green hues of the 
male are brighter and yellower than in the female, in which 
a bluer- cast predominates, and in which the green of the 
belly is paler; and the shafts of the two median rectrices are 
usually developed further beyond the vanes in the male than 
