434 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



notes on the habits. Though Mr. Whitehead takes copious 

 and excellent notes on the last subject, he tells us he is 

 keeping them for the book that he intends to publish on his 

 return home, which will no doubt be as intensely interesting 

 as his former work on the exploration of Kina Balu. We 

 cannot help thinking, however, that the delay in publishing 

 these valuable notes, which cannot fail to be of the greatest 

 interest, is a mistake, as such information would greatly 

 enhance the value of the papers published on his collections, 

 which are at present, of necessity, somewhat dry reading, 

 dealing, as they do, merely with the birds from a scientific 

 point of view. Mr. Whitehead possesses the real " collector's 

 eye,'' without which the field-naturalist is nowhere, and this 

 enables him to see and shoot all sorts of curious little 

 warblers and small ground-birds, which the majority of 

 ordinary collectors miss altogether or stumble on by accident : 

 such birds, for instance, as Androphilus accentor and Pseudo- 

 tharrhaleus caudatus. 



In a letter dated 11th October, 1894, Mr. Whitehead 

 told us he was about to leave Manilla for the northern 

 highlands in the beginning of November, his intention being 

 to go inland much further to the north than he had been 

 before and to collect in the lower forests first, gradually work- 

 ing up into the high mountains. He expected to find a Jay of 

 some sort, having noticed a species of oak growing there, but 

 no bird of thekind was met with, and probably it does not 

 exist, for had it done so he would no doubt have come across 

 it. As soon as this collecting-ground appeared to be ex- 

 hausted, his idea was to proceed to Apari, on the north coast 

 of the island, and visit a large foi'cst seen during his some- 

 what unfortunate expedition in May of 1894, when, owing to 

 the perfidy of his collectors, he found himself practically 

 single-handed in a most difficult country. We gather, how- 

 ever, that he found too many objects of interest in Lepanto 

 to necessitate his making this long journey of over 100 miles 

 as the crow files. 



On the 20th of December, a very interesting letter from 

 the north mentioned in detail his most interesting captures. 



