466 Mr. W. R, Ogilvie Grant on the 



brownish- black upper parts washed with dark olive, most 

 conspicuous on the rump and upper tail-coverts. 



Total length 8-7 inches, wing 4*25, tail 3*25, tarsus 1"2. 



In the immature male the upper parts resemble those of 

 the female, but most or many of the feathers on the top of 

 the head are brownish black and similar in colour to the 

 back of the adult male. 



In a slightly older example the head is mixed with the 

 brownish-grey feathers of the adult plumage; in a younger 

 bird the crowQ is uniform brownish black, and the feathers 

 of the mantle have rufous shaft-stripes. Both these birds 

 have the chest and upper breast mixed with rust-coloured, 

 feathers spotted with black at the extremity, and perfectly 

 similar to those found in the young of the Common Black- 

 bird {T. merula). 



An immature female has the top of the head, and nape 

 warm dark brown, and. the rest of the upper parts dark 

 brown washed with olive, as in the adult female, but few 

 of the feathers of the mantle and wing-coverts have narrow 

 rufous shaft-stripes, and the throat and chest are mostly clad 

 in the rust and black-spotted immature plumage. The 

 nearly adult female diflFers only from the adult in having the 

 crown blackish brown. 



17. loLE MiNDOKENsis, Stecrc, List Birds & Mamm. Philip- 

 pines, p. 19 (1890). 



lole schmackeri, Hartert, J. f. O. 1890, p. 155, & 1891, 

 p. 202. 



The Mindoro Streaked Bulbul appears to be a perfectly 

 well characterized species, and a nice series of birds of both 

 sexes was obtained between the months of November and 

 January. Prof. Steere mentions that it may be distinguished 

 from /. philippensis by its long beak, &c., but it is the 

 /. philippensis, and not /. mindorensis, which has the longer 

 bill. 



18. Brachypteryx poliogyna. Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 446, 

 pi. xii. fig. 1 [ ? ] . 



The Luzon Shortwing was again met with in the high- 



