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Letters, E.ctructs, Xotices, c\c. 



description notes, the black subtermiual band across the tail 

 ice/l developed, as in the adnlt birds scut by Count Salvadori. 

 Agaiu; comparing the Museum series of five adult speci- 

 mens of O. monuchus, plus the type of 0. meneliki, with the 

 whole series from the Turin Museum, we find the characters 

 of the markings on the outer tail-feathers entirely reversed ; 

 for the former leads one to believe that the adult has no 

 subtermiual band and that the young has, whereas in the 

 Turin series the reverse obtains. 



Fig. 1. 



Fipr. 2. 



Six lateral rectrices of specimen a ( J ad.) 

 of Oriolus munachus (Mus. Toiiu.). 



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Six lateral rectrices of Oriolus nmiachus, 

 adult specimen with black baud most 

 defined (Mus. Brit.). 



But, after all, I have very little doubt that Count Salvadori 

 is rights and that all the birds mentioned above belong to 

 oiie species, O. monachus ; and that the presence or absence 

 of the black subtermiual band across the outer tail-feathers 

 is of very little importance, being characteristic of neither 

 age nor sex. Under the circumstances the mistake was 

 almost unavoidable, and though I regret having advised 

 Mr. Wcld-BlundcU and Lord Lovat to describe as a new 



