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2 c?c?, 3 ? ?, 1 nnscxeil, Kisser. April, IMiiy I'.mi. fNns. 3841, 4(il.")— 4ol7, 

 41 173, 4o:o.) 



" Iris greyish brown, tVct juilc llcsii-browii, bill bniwiiish, wliitish bcluw." 



loll. Cisticola exilis (Vig. ct Horsf.) (? siibsp.) 



Midiirux exilis Vigors & Horsf., Tnms. Linn. S'<«-. xv. p. 223 (1K27 : ex Latham, Australia). 



All these birds have striped crowns iuid loiiij tails. They appear to be all in 

 winter (non-breeding) dross. The want of white tips to the rectrices and some 

 other details seem to distingnish thorn readily from the various forms of ('. cisticola, 

 I hardly think they will ultimately be Ibund id.'ntirul with typieal crilix, but 

 cannot give reliable character. 



5 cJt?, 6 ??, Letti, November, December \Wl. (Nos. UU13, 6nl4, CiOlO, 

 6454—6461.) 



1 c?, Moa, 28. xi. 19iC,'. (No. (i;!0.j.) 



17 c??, Roma, July— August VMyZ. (Nos. 5043, 5225, 5291— 5295, and ten 

 without numbers.) 



llii. Megalurus galactotes Temm. 



Mailing (laliu-lutcs Temm., PI. CuI. 65 fig. 1 (1823 : Australia). 



? in moult, Roma, 3(1. vii. 1902. (No. 6224.) 



" Iris dull dark brown, bill blackish, whitish with yellowish base below, feet 

 pale brownish." 



This specimen has the crown and ujiper tail-coverts sharjily streaked with 

 black ; it does not, therefore, belong to M. timoriensis. 



LANIIDAE. 

 111. Lanius bentet Horsf. 



Lanius bentit Horsf., Tmns. Linn. Sm: xiii. p. 144 (1821 : Java); Finsch, AV)/m Leyden .!/»*■. xxii. 

 p. 268 (Kisser). 

 The variation in the extent of the black on the crown is remarkable. It is 

 greatest in specimens in worn plumage, less evident in freshly moulted ones ; bnt 

 sometimes the black does not seem to be there, so that it could not be produced by 

 wear. The young bird just before and after leaving the nest is above more rusty 

 brownish, with narrow, blackish anteapical bars, the secondaries widely edged with 

 rusty-buff, the alar speculum bufl'y-whitish, sides of breast with blackish ante- 

 apical bars. 



6 c?? ad.. Wetter, September, October 19u2. (Nos. 5705, 579S, 5799, 5802 

 —5804.) 



2 6 ad., 2 ? ad., 2 jnill.. Kisser, April 1001. 



"Iris brown, bill and feet black, feet in the piilli blackish ]ilumbeous, bill 

 brownish black, below whitish." 



112. Pachycephala calliope I>p. 



Puihycepluila calllojit: Bonaparte, Ciiiii'p. Ar. i. p. 328 (186(1 ; Timor, ex Miiller's MS.) ; Finsch 

 Nut. L. .1/. xxii. p. 265 (Wetter). 



G (J ad., 1 ? ad.. Wetter, September 1902. (Nos. 549()— 550(i, 5517, 

 6634.) 



" S Iris dark reddish brown (coffee-brown), feet dark plumbeous (dark grey), 

 liill black." 



