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(0.75 inch in length) ; on second pair, gray tip much less and only 

 a trace on some of the other rectrices; central pair blue gray with 

 a subterminal black area. Bill, legs, and nails black; irides, 

 dark brown. Length in the flesh, 9.3 inches; bill from nostril, 

 0.62 ; culmen from base, 0.88 ; wing, 5.00 ; tail, 4.18 ; tarsus, 0.92. 



Cotijpp. — Adult female, Xo. 5103, Government Laboratories Col- 

 lection; Balete, Rio Baco, Mindoro, May 17, 1905; McGregor et 

 alife. 



Description. — General color leaden gray (nearly the same color 

 as Artamides mindorensis Steere), thus much lighter than the 

 male ; chin, throat, and head areas described as black in male, are 

 gray in the female, imiform with rest of general color; lores, how- 

 ever, slightly blackish ; wing and tail as in the male. Length in the 

 flesh, 9.3 inches; bill from nostril, 0.01; culmen from base, 0.86; 

 wing, 4.96 ; tail, 4.18 ; tarsus, 0.92. 



Distribution. — Mindoro and Luzon, Philippines. 



A male and female from Lamao, Bataan Province, Luzon, do 

 not differ from the Mindoro specimens, of which we collected two of 

 each sex. 



This species differs from E. mindanense in having rump and 

 upper tail coverts uniform in shade with the back, and from E. 

 panayense in having no wing bar; it appears to be closely related 

 to E. everetti of Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, and Bongao. Possibly this is 

 the species referred to by Sharpe when he says :^ "Lord Tweeddale 

 also told me, shortly before his death, that he had yet another new 

 species of Edoliisoma from Luzon." 



Pericrocotus cinereus Lafres. 



In March the ashy minivet was fairly common at Chicago. 



Lalage melanoleuca ( Blyth ) . 



A1)undant at Chicago, where a number of specimens were taken; 

 it was not seen at our upper camp. 



lole mindorensis Steere. 



The nest and eggs of the Mindoro bulbul have been described 

 by Grant and ^Yhitehead, but notes on two nests collected near 

 Balete may Ije of interest. April 2, a set of three heavily incubated 

 eggs was taken with the nest from a small tree. The ground 

 color of these eggs is white, with faint lavender undershell mark- 

 ings; the entire surface is thickly and uniformly marked with 



' Cal. Bds., IV, p. 471. 



