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white vegetable down. The outside measurements are 44 by 23 
inches. The upright position and the domed entrance are well 
shown in the plate. The three eggs measure in inches: 0.55 by 
0.42; 0.56 by 0.42; 0.57 by 0.44. In color they are light blue, 
marked with spots and dots of reddish brown, most of which are 
about the larger end. This nest was collected by Celestino, and I 
think there can be no reasonable doubt as to its being that of 
Cisticola. Another nest holding three young birds and found on 
July 2 was in every way similar to the-one described. The young 
which were almost ready to leave the nest are very similar to the 
adult. The feathers of upper parts are umber brown broadly edged 
with dark ocreous brown, forming stripes on top of head; lower 
parts white washed with pale yellow on chin, throat, breast, and 
cheeks; flanks washed with light brown. 
CopsYCHUS MINDANENSIS (Gm.). 
Romblon and Sibuyan. 
JOLE CINEREICEPS Bourns and Worcester. 
Several specimens of this large and very distinct fruit thrush are 
in the collection from Romblon, where it was found only in the 
woods. A young bird which was evidently out of the nest but a 
short time has interesting undescribed plumage. 
Juvenile—Female, Romblon Island, May 29, 1904. Upper parts 
dark gray washed with dark rusty brown; wings blackish brown 
edged with rusty brown; the tail, which is dark brown, does not 
reach to tip of primaries; lower parts white; sides of head, a 
band across breast, and sides of body gray. Bill pale brown; legs 
and nails hght steel blue. 
The Romblon Jole is of a size with Hypsipetes fugensis. In the 
former species, however, the bill is considerably longer and the 
tail is much shorter. The tarsal envelopes are variable in our 
specimens of Jole cinereiceps, some being entire and others showing 
indications of scutes, but in none is the tarsus so strongly scutellated 
as in Hypsipetes fugensis. In the matter of rictal bristles I wish 
to recant my previous statement in which I was misled by a com- 
parison of large species of Hypstpetes with small species of Tole.t 
PYCNONOTUS GOIAVIER (Scop.). 
June 1 a pair of this species was taken on Romblon, where it 
was not previously known. A large egg was found in the female. 
+ Cf. Bull. Phil. Mus., No. 4, p. 32. 
