On the Species of t/ie Genus Turdinulus. 55 



and Desertas, in the month of June. Oiir men used to 

 catch numbers of this Petrel every night, and it was nothing 

 for Manuel or Francisco to produce half-a-dozen each out of 

 their shirts ; but, with the exception of a few which we 

 kept as specimens, the majority were allowed to escape. 

 Tlie call of this bird is very fine, and was frequently heard 

 at night, a pleasant contrast to the harsh voices of the Great 

 Shearwaters ; it consists of four higher notes, and a lower, 

 more prolonged note; the whole repeated several (usually 

 three) times, and uttered in a loud, cheerful strain, which 

 may be correctly expressed as follows : — • 



The eggs are pure white, almost pyriform in shape, and 

 distinctly pointed toAvards the smaller end. Four shells 

 measure 1-59-1-81 iuch by 112-1-28. 



IV. — On the Species of the Genus Turdinulus. 

 By W. R. Ogilvie Grant. 



In the October number of ' The Ibis ' 1895 (p. 432) I de- 

 scribed a new species of Babbler [Turdinulus guttaticollis) , 

 from the Miri Hills. A more careful examination of the 

 little group of Timelise to which this species belongs shows 

 that the Miri bird is much more closely allied to the true 

 Robert's Babbler [Pnoqyyga [Turdinulus'] roberti, Godwin- 

 Austen & Walden) than I at first supposed ; aud that the 

 hirds from Mount Mooleyit, Tenasserim, which have been 

 named T. roberti by both Col. Godwin- Austen and Mr. A. 

 O. Hume, and with which I compared my new species, 

 belong in reality to a perfectly distinct species, having the 

 throat and fore neck entirely devoid of the black spots 

 which are equally characteristic of the true T. roberti and 

 T. guttaticollis. 



In 1877 Limborg and W. Davison visited Mount 

 INIooleyit and secured a number of specimens of Turdinulus. 



