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This specimen appears to agree with Count Salvadori’s de- 
scription. Other specimens are in the Museum from Borneo, 
but to which no title had been affixed by Mr. George Gray. 
32. BRACHYPODIUS IMMACULATUS, Sp. nl. 
Brachypodius melanocephalus (Gm.); Salvad. 1. c. p. 201. 
a. “No. 43. ¢. Sibu. Iris cobalt-blue.” 
This species is evidently rare in Borneo, as it has only 
occurred once at Sarawak to the Marquis Doria. Count Sal- 
vadori knows of no other instance of its capture, and refers 
the Sarawak skin to B. melanocephalus. J find, on compa- 
rison, that Mr. Everett’s specimen agrees best with Sumatran 
examples in the Museum; and these I am induced to consider 
distinct from the Malaccan species, 3. e. the true B. melano- 
cephalus, as none of the latter shows the outer tail-feathers 
entirely yellow, as the Sumatran bird does. The Sibu skin 
now sent is probably a young bird, as it has the back dull 
olive-green ; but it has scarcely any trace of a dark shade on 
the outer feather, and is nearly as bright yellow as the Su- 
matran skins. I therefore propose to separate the latter as 
a distinct species. 
Adult. General colour above yellowish green, more or less 
inclining to olive, the lower back and rump mottled with 
black, the bases to the feathers being of the latter colour, the 
tips yellow; upper tail-coverts bright lemon-yellow ; crown, 
sides of head, and entire throat shining green, slightly washed 
with purple under certain lights; breast olive-green, gradually ~ 
shading off into bright yellow on the abdomen, flanks, and 
under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts pale yellow; upper 
wing-coverts olive-green, the greater series brighter and more 
yellow; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and primaries dark 
sepia-brown, very narrowly bordered with olive-green, the 
secondaries blackish on the mner web, bright yellow on the 
outer ; tail bright yellow, shading off about the middle of the 
feather into olive-green, and thence mto black, the latter 
forming an irregular subterminal spot before a brilliant yel- 
low tip, this dark shading becoming gradually imperceptible 
on the outer feathers, which are consequently entirely yel- 



