470 ADDENDA. 



Page 49. 

 For Edoliisoma timoriensis read Edoliisoma timoriense. 



Page 55, Add, as an additional species : — 



15 rt. Edoliisoma mindanense. 

 Volrocivora mindanensis, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, part 4. 



Adult male (Zamboanga, April 1878, A. Everett ; type of species). 

 General colour above light slaty blue, lighter on the rump, and 

 shading off much paler on the upper tail-coverts, which have hoary 

 whitish edgings ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater coverts and 

 the inner secondaries externally hoary grey : bastard plumes, pri- 

 mary-coverts, and quills black, with slaty-grey margins and tips to 

 the primaries, the secondaries with broader and lighter grey edgings ; 

 tail-feathers black, with a narrow edging of grey at the tip, the 

 two outermost feathers with a terminal spot of grey, larger on the 

 external one ; a narrow frontal band, feathers above the eye, sides 

 of face, throat, and fore neck black, shading off on the chest ; sides 

 of neck and under surface of body light slaty blue, shading off into 

 paler ashy grey on the lower abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ; 

 thighs darker slaty grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries like the 

 breast ; quills blackish below, the inner webs light grey ; " biU and 

 legs black ; iris dark brown " {A. Everett). Total length 8-5 inches, 

 culmen 0*85, wing 4-65, tail 3'7, tarsus 0-85. (Mus. Marquis of 

 Tiveeddale.) 



Adult female (Zamboanga, April 1878). Uniform in colour, but 

 differing from the male in being lighter blue-grey, paling into 

 silvery grey on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-covorts, the 

 edges to the greater wing-eoverts and secondaries also lighter grey 

 than the back ; tail black, slightly tipped with ashy grey, the two 

 centre feathers ashy grey, with black at the ends ; under surface of 

 body light ashy grey, the vent and under tail-coverts pearly grey ; 

 no black on the forehead or sides of face, excepting a dusky spot in 

 front of the eye ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light pearly grey, 

 as also the inner lining of the quills ; " iris dark brown " {Everett). 

 Total length 9 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-5, tail 3-6, tarsus 0-85. 

 {Ihis. Marquis of Tweeddale.) 



Hah. Island of Mindanao, Philippine archipelago. 



Ohs. The types of this species, kindly lent to me by the Marquis 

 of Tweeddale, show that it is closely allied to E. morio, but that it 

 differs by the characters given above, and by the uniform colour 

 of the female plumage. 



Its position in the " Key " (p. 43) would be as follows : — 



a^. Under sm-face luiiforni below, the 

 breast not paling off lighter to- 

 wards the under tail- coverts ; pii- 

 maiies white on the inner web . . morio (f , p. 54. 



l". Under tail -coverts pale gi'ey, the 

 abdomen also gradually paler than 



