450 Mr. W. R. Ogilvic Grant on the 



bellied Thick-head differ in no wise from the types from the 

 Benguet district. 



An immature male has many of the feathers of the top of 

 the head and ear-coverts reddish brown, and the outer webs 

 of the secondary quills and some of their coverts are similarly 

 coloured. Probably in the quite young bird the whole of 

 the olive-green plumage of the adult is replaced by reddish 

 brown. 



50. Lanius nasutus, Scop.; Grants Ibis, 1894, p. 513. 

 Additional examples of this Long-tailed Shrike were ob- 

 tained in the Lepanto district. 



51. Lanius validirostris, Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 512. 

 The Thick-billed Shrike appears to be a somewhat rare 



bird, and Mr. Whitehead obtained one or two additional 

 examples with considerable difficulty ; these are precisely 

 similar to those collected at Benguet. 



52. Rhabdornis mystacalis (Temm.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 409 ; 1895, p. 256 (woodcuts). 



A few more specimens of the Bridled Flower- Creeper have 

 been received. 



53. Dendrophila MESOLEUCA, Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 512; 

 1895, p. Ill, pi. iv. fig 2. 



Several specimens of both sexes of the White-backed 

 Nuthatch were obtained in Lepanto and include immature 

 examples ; in these the white patch down the middle of the 

 mantle is not very well marked and of a purplish-grey tint, 

 the underparts are much more richly coloured, being mostly 

 pale fulvous with a distinct purple gloss in some lights. In 

 the adult birds the chest and underparts are white, shading 

 into pale buf£ on the middle of the breast and belly, and all 

 trace of the purplish reflections characteristic of the im- 

 mature examples is absent. It is only in the most adult 

 examples that the patch in the middle of the mantle becomes 

 mostly pure white — probably this is not altogether assumed 

 until the second or third year. 



