116 Mr. W. 11. Ogilvie Grant oji the 



and Loo Choo Islands, Japan, and other localities. Of 

 these I add a table of measurements (see p. 115), the sex, 

 where recorded by the collector, being placed in brackets. 



17. PoLioLOPHUs UROSTiCTUS (Salvad.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 253. 



Several males and females of the Wattled Brown Bulbul 

 from Engano. 



18. Irena cyanogastra. Vigors; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. vi. p. 175 (1881). 



The Luzon Fairy Blue-bird was obtained by Mr. White- 

 head for the first time in the neighbourhood of Cape Engano. 



The plumage of the male, contrary to the statement of 

 Dr. Meyer, differs slightly from that of the female in having 

 the black on the chest more extended and deeper in colour. In 

 the female the throat and fore neck are not such deep black 

 and slightly glossed with purple, while the band of purplish- 

 blue feathers across the chest which succeeds the black neck 

 is deeper in colour than the rest of the underparts. 



19. CiTTOciNCLA LUZoNiENSis (Kittl.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 447. 



Mr. Whitehead now sends additional specimens of the 

 Philippine Shamafrom Engano, collected in the end of April 

 and the beginning of May. The males are perfectly typical, 

 but all the three females are unusually dark in plumage, though 

 no doubt this is partly accounted for by their somewhat 

 worn condition. The crown of the head is very dark choco- 

 late-brown, tinged with rufous in all three, and in one bird 

 the mantle and back are nearly black, each feather being 

 tinged with brown, and the fore neck and chest are blackish, 

 while in the other two specimens the back is blackish brown, 

 each feather margined with deep chocolate-brown ; the 

 feathers of the throat and fore neck, as well as the sides of 

 the head, are greyish black. The whole appearance of these 

 birds conveys the impression that they are young males 

 attaining their adult plumage. I cannot see that it is possible 

 for the ordinary female (described ' Ibis,' 1895, p. 447), even 

 in very worn plumage, to become so black on the back and 



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