468 Mr. W, R. Ogihie Grant on the 



for the first time. The readers of ' The Ibis ' may remember 

 that this species was discovered during Mr. Whitehead's 

 expedition to the highlands of Benguet, N. Luzon, but only 

 males were collected. In the figure given in 'The Ibis' 

 for 1895, the breast and belly are of too pale a yellow. 

 Messrs. Bourns and Worcester also obtained this bird in 

 Mindoro, naming it Mthopyga minuta, but the only speci- 

 men they obtained, a male, was unfortunately stolen from 

 their collection in July 1894. Brief as their description is, 

 there can, however, be no doubt that ^. minuta and JE.jiavi- 

 pectus are identical, the latter name having priority by a 

 couple of months. Messrs. Bourns and Worcester are also 

 of this opinion (see Ibis, 1895, p. 405). 



Adult female. Above olive-green, rather darker on the 

 crown; feathers of the forehead with dark middles, a few 

 indistinct red spots on some of the feathers of the mantle ; 

 rump bright yellow; chin and throat pale whitish yellow, 

 becoming brighter on the breast, belly, and under tail- 

 coverts ; sides and flanks whitish yellow ; quills blackish, 

 the outer webs of the inner primaries and secondaries edged 

 with olive, tinged with rufous; middle tail-feathers mostly 

 olive-green ; outer tail-feathers black, margined on the outer 

 web and tipped with olive. 



Total length 2*8 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 1*55, tail 0*9, 

 tarsus 0"48. 



24. CiNNYRis SPERATA (Linn.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 254. 

 A single male of the Red-breasted Philippine Sunbird 



was obtained in the month of January by one of Mr. White- 

 head's collectors in the lowlands. We shall be curious to 

 learn whether C. whiteheadi will eventually be found to inhabit 

 the highlands of Mindoro. 



25. CiNNYKis JUGULARis (Linu.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 451. 

 Two males of the Yellow-breasted Philippine Sunbird were 



also among the birds sent from the lowlands. 



26. ZosTERops AUREiLORis, Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 453. 



A small series, including both sexes, of the Golden-fronted 

 Silvereye were collected in the highlands. This species was 



