11,2 Mr. E. B. Sliarpe on the Genus Ortbotomus. 



2. Orthotomus edela. 

 Hab. Java. 



This is the Javan representative of O. sutorius ; but, not 

 having seen a specimen, I am unable to state whether it 

 is really distinct. Lord Tweeddale (Walden, B. Burma, 

 p. 120) writes : — " The Javan O. edela and the Indian 0. su- 

 torius are barely separable, the Javan bird being chiefly distin- 

 guished by having the lores and superciliary stripe pale fer- 

 ruginous, and not greyish Avhite.^^ 



3. Orthotomus frontalis, sp. n. (Plate II. fig. 1.) 

 Adult male. General colour above olive-green, the wing- 

 coverts coloured like the back ; the quills dark brown, ex- 

 ternally edged with the same green as the back, the inner- 

 most secondaries exactly like the latter; tail olive-brow'n, 

 with dusky undulations in certain lights, the feathers edged 

 with bright olive-yellow, and tipped with whity brown, 

 before which is an indistinct subterminal shade of darker 

 brown ; forehead and a narrow superciliary line bright chest- 

 nut ; crown, nape, and sides of neck ashy grey ; lores fulves- 

 cent ; sides of face whitish, the ear-coverts shaded with ashy 

 grey ; cheeks and entire throat silky white ; rest of under 

 surface of body creamy white, the flanks pale greenish yellow ; 

 thighs tawny ; bill dark horn-brown in skin, the lower man- 

 dible yellowish ; legs fleshy brown : " iris light hazeP' [Steere) . 

 Total length 3"7 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 1-6, tail 1*5, 

 tarsus 0"75. 



Young female. DiflTers from the male in wanting the parti- 

 coloured head, which is only a shade darker olive-green than 

 the back, the subterminal mark on the tail is very much more 

 pronounced than in the adult male ; entire under surface of 

 body silky white. Total length 3*7 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 

 1-75, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-75. 



Hab. Islands of Basilan and Mindanao, Philippines. 



The types of this species are in Dr. Steere's collection. 

 The species is a very distinct one, its nearest ally being 0. 

 sutorius, from which it is at once distinguished by its grey 

 head and chestnut forehead, and also by its having a dark 

 subterminal spot to the tail-feathers. 



