( 540 ) 



lu this new geuus the bill is shorter thau the head, the nostrils in front of 

 the feathers at the base of the bill, and protected by a membrane, but apparently 

 (unless damaged by a string) rather open in front. The wing is short, round, and 

 soft. The first primary is of about hall' the length of the second, the second a little 

 more than three-quarters of the third, the fourtli, fifth, and sixth subeijual and 

 longest, the seventh very little shorter than the sixth, the following ones gradually 

 shorter; the secondaries as long and shorter than the second primary. Plumage rich 

 and soft ; the upper and under tail-coverts full, broad, soft, and long, nearly or quite 

 half as long as the taU. Tarsus longer thau toes ; tarsus covered with large 

 scutellae, which in one of the two specimens are more fused on the upper part. 

 Tail graduated ; rectrices broad, soft, and somewhat pointed at the tips. 



4. Stasiasticus montis sp. uov. 



cJ. Above dark olive-brown with a rufous tinge, more visible on the back, 

 upper wing-coverts, and outer edges of quills; tail more olive. Feathers of cliin and 

 upper throat white with blackish bases and tips, those of fore-neck blackish with 

 whitish fringes ; breast and abdomen white along the middle. 8ides of neck grey; 

 sides of breast and abdomen olive-brown. Under wing-coverts dusky with dirty 

 white borders. Under tail-coverts brown with white borders, the basal ones slightly 

 tinged with rnfous olive. L. t. ca. 15.5 mm. ; al. on; eaud. 06 ; rectr. exter. 33 ; 

 tars. 20 ; culm. 13—14. 



Two specimens, both marked cJ, from between 9000 and 10,(JOO feet, on Mount 

 Arjuno. 



5. Sitta azurea Less. 



Shot at 3000, 8000, and 9000 feet. Male aud/l-w^/c do not differ if the birds 

 before me are properly sexed. If they are, then the birds described as ^^ females 

 and immature birds " by Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. Vlli. ji. 3.")?, are all immature 

 birds, and not s,(kn\i females. 



At 3000 feet. 

 At 9500 feet. 



0. Aethopyga mystacalis (Temm.). 

 '■ Aethopyga eximia (Horsf.). 



8. Chalcoparia singalensis (Gm.). 

 Oii& feviale, 3000 feet. Throat very dark. 



9. Zosterops javanica (Horsf.) 

 At nearly 10,000 feet. 



10. Zosterops citrinella Bji. 



Two males, shot at 8000 and 10,000 feet above the sea, belong to Z. citrinella 

 of Timor, but they are also the same as Z. neglecta, Seebolim in Bull. B. 0. C. I. 

 p. xxvi., and Whitehead, Kxjdor. Mt. Kino Balu, Apji. p. 2f)\ (IS'.iS). 



Z. neglecta has never been jjroperly described, but only diagnosed as follows : 

 " Similis Z. palpehrosae, scd magis olivascens, et inac-uln, anteocnlnri oliscnriore 



