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white, the tips increasing iu width towards the outer pair, 

 which has also the greater part of the outer web white. 



Immature birds resemble the adult, but the golden-yellow 

 forehead is represented by yellowish-brown feathers with pale 

 middles, the quills are edged with rufous, and the underparts 

 are white slightly tinged with yellow. 



25. Parus semilarvatus (Salvad.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 111. 



A few additional specimens of the Black Titmouse from 

 the neighbourhood of Cape Engano include a young male 

 bird with the belly brownish black, in which the white patch 

 on the nape is very conspicuous, some of the feathers form- 

 ing the patch being nearly pure white, with only a very nar- 

 row brownish-black margin. This white patch is also present 

 in both the adult male and female, but hidden by the wider 

 black tij)s to the feathers. 



It is worth mentioning that the adult female differs from 

 the adult male in having the underparts deep brown instead 

 of shining black, for this sexual difference appears to have 

 been hitherto overlooked. 



26. Lanius lucionensis, Linn. ; Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 512. 

 An adult male of this Shrike from Engaiio district. 



27. Rhabdornis mystacalis (Temm.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 450. 



The Bridled Flower-creeper is apparently fairly common 

 in the neighbourhood of Engano. Several males were sent. 



28. Dendrophila mesoleuca, Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 450. 

 Two immature males of the White-backed Nuthatch from 



Engano. We again observe scarcely a trace of the charac- 

 teristic white stripes down the middle of the back, and the 

 underparts arc warm dull fulvous with some purplish gloss. 



