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more broadly tipped with white, a fleshy wattle round 

 the eye. — Two species known. 

 Range. Philippine Islands. 



1. PolioLophus urostictus. 



Brachypiis urostictus Salvad. Atti R. Acad. Tor. V, p. 509. 

 Poliolophus urostictus Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. new series, Zool. I, 

 p. 334 (1877); id. Cat. B. VI, p. 63 (1881). 



Hab. Philippine Islands. 



One specimen from Samar Islands and two from Mindanao. 



2. Poliolophus basilanicus '). 



Poliolophus hasilanicus Steere , List Birds and Mamm. Philipp. (see 

 Ibis 1891, p. 303, note); id. Ibis 1891, p. 313. 



Not represented. 



Genus MesolopUws , u. g. 



Type: Mesolophus flaviventris (Tickell). 



General color olive-yellow , head black , a long crest of 

 sword-shaped (not lanceolate) feathers springing from the 

 centre of the crown , while the rest of the crown-feathers 

 are not lengthened , tarsus equal in length to the culmen, 

 wing longer than tail. — Two species known. 



Range. From the Central Provinces of British India 

 northward to the Himalayas , eastward to Cochin China 

 and southward to the Malay Peninsula; Borneo. 



Key to the species. 



a. Chin and throat black like rest of the head .... Jiaviventris. 



b. Chin and throat yellow, like rest of lower surface. . montis. 



1. Mesolophus Jiaviventris. 



Vanga flaviventris Tickell, J. A. S. Beng. II, p. 573 (1833). 

 Otocompsa flaviventris Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 161 (1881); Gates B. Br. 

 Ind. I , p. 278 (1889) ; Baker , J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. VII, pi. XV (1892). 



1) Having neither description nor specimens of this species at my disposal, 

 I am unable to give a diagnosis of it by the way of a key. 



JNotes from the Ley den IMuseinxi, "Vol, XVII. 



