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decorated with a white material resembliDg cobweb, but this was 

 in reality the cotton-like substance which grows in large masses 

 and streamers upon the back of a jumping insect, one of the 

 Fulgoridce. The three eggs were white, marked with dots of red- 

 dish brown, the dots more numerous at, and forming rings about, 

 the larger ends of two of them, and about the smaller end of the 

 third. 



Zeocephus rufus (G. E. Gray). 



A few specimens of the rufous flycatcher were taken at Balete. 



Artamides mindorensis Steere. (PI. XIV.) 



A nest containing a single fresh egg was taken near Balete, 

 April 26, 1905; these, together with a female Artamides, were col- 

 lected by my assistant, who assures me that he saw the bird leave 

 the nest. The nest is composed of mosses (Pogonatum and others), 

 small leaves, lichens, and fine rootlets; the outside is covered with 

 cobwebs which serve to hold the materials together and to fasten the 

 nest to the fork in wliich it is built. The nest is 4.5 inches across 

 the top and its outside depth is but two. The ground color of the 

 egg is light gray, with a slight greenish tinge; a heavy and con- 

 tinuous wreath of spots and blotches encircles the shell near the 

 plane of its short diameter; a few small spots are scattered about 

 over the entire surface; the deep shell markings vary from pale 

 to dark lavender; the surface spots and blotches are reddish brown; 

 measurements, 1.81 by 0.83. 



Edoliisoma elusum new species. 



T7jpc. — Adult male. No. 5102, Government Laboratories Col- 

 lection; Balete, Rio Baco, Mindoro, P. I., May 17, 1905; McGregor 

 et aliae. 



Description. — General color bluish slate; chin, throat, forebreast, 

 forehead, and side of head including lores and a wide line over 

 eye, jet black; alula, primary coverts, and primaries black; inner 

 primaries and inner feathers of alula narrowly edged with blue 

 gray ; secondaries and tertiaries black, with wide edges of blue gray, 

 which covers all or nearly all of the outer web; secondary coverts 

 gray; inner web of quills partly dark blue gray, this begins as a 

 small basal area on the short first primary, becomes greater on each 

 succeeding quill, and reaches nearly to the tips of inner quills; a 

 narrow edging of white on inner web of first four quills (in the type 

 this is not so pronounced as in the two other skins at hand) ; tail 

 black; from below, outer pair of rectrices tipped witli blue gray 



