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York Islands, and M. erythrina, Ramsay, from New Ireland ; 

 but I have examined a specimen of the last, and it is cer- 

 tainly distinct, as is most likely M. coccinea, M. rubro- 

 brunnea, Meyer, and M. rubrotincta, Salvad., are perfectly 

 distinct from M. simplex, of which Mr. Gadow considers that 

 they are only subspecies. 



It is a blessing that in the Catalogue the genus Zosterops 

 has been treated of by Mr. Sharpe, as otherwise who knows 

 into what a state of confusion it would have been reduced ! 



In the genus Glycyphila Mr. Gadow includes the genera 

 GlycychcBra and ^tigmatops, to which I cannot assent, and 

 also unites Stigmatops chloris and S. subocularis with Glycy- 

 phila ocularis. I can find no mention of my Stigmatops blasii 

 from Amboyna, described in the third part of my ' Orni- 

 tologia,' p. 543. Most likely this is the bird from Ceram 

 mentioned quite recently by Dr. A. B. Meyer (' Ueber neue 

 und ungeniigend bekannte Vcigel, Nester und Eier aus dem 

 ostindischen Archipel,' p- 40) as Myzomela, n. sp. 



Treating of the genus Ptilotis, there are many points where 

 the opinions expressed by Mr. Gadow are at variance with 

 the facts established by me. He divides P. analoga into 

 three races, one of which, P. flavirictus, I still regard as 

 specifically distinct ; the so-called southern race, with the 

 yellow auricular feathers very short, is to be found also in 

 the north. 



With P. albinotata, Salvad., Mr. Gadow (p. 229) unites 

 P. montana, Salvad. ; but I doubt whether he has ever seen 

 any specimen of the two, and I shall continue to believe that 

 they are really distinct, the former living in the low dis- 

 tricts, and P. montana in the mountains. 



In the genus Plilotis Mr. Gadow has included a most 

 natural group, which has been separated as Xanthotis ; the 

 type of this group is P. chrysotis (Less.). I have seen many 

 specimens of this bird, also from Dorey and Andai, and none 

 had the feathers of the hind neck tipped with grey. I suspect 

 that the specimen from Waigiou, which is described (p. 238) 

 as most richly coloured, belongs to my Xanthotis fusciventris, 

 regarded as a subspecies by Mr. Gadow, who has wrongly 



