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" N.E. Borneo'" given on the labels is a mistake. In the 

 box containing the five specimens in the British Museum 

 we find the following MS. note, in the handwriting of our 

 friend Mr. A. H. Everett : — " I have examined the two skins 

 of /. ramsayi (types) in the Museum, and am confident they 

 were not collected by me or by any native hunters from 

 whom I obtained birdskins. I have never had any skins 

 from Sulu nor visited the islands myself. Possibly these 

 birds were collected by my brother, H. H.Everett, at Tagoro, 

 in Western Sarawak.'" This note bears date the 25th of 

 September, 1890, and since it was written Mr. A. H. Everett 

 has visited the island of Bongao, in the Sulu archipelago, 

 and there obtained examples of /. ramsayi, some of which 

 are now before us. 



36. Thriponax mindorexsis, Steere, List Birds & Mamm. 

 Philippines, p. 8 (1890). 



Mr. Whitehead's collection contains two adult pairs of 

 the Mindoro Great Black Woodpecker, which were obtained 

 in the lowlands. Messrs. Bourns and Worcester have iisef ally 

 supplemented Prof. Steere's somewhat brief description of 

 his T. philippinensis { = T. hargitti, Sharpe), from Panay, 

 Guimaras, Masbate, and Palawan, and as the original descrip- 

 tion of T. inindorensis, which is a well-marked species, is 

 even shorter than that of the above, a few additional 

 notes may be of service : — At first sight these two white- 

 rumped species appear to be nearly, if not quite, identical, 

 but, as Prof. Steere very rightly says, the Mindoro bird is 

 smaller and always has a considerable amount of white on 

 the throat. There is, however, even a better character for 

 distinguishing the two species, which he appears to have over- 

 looked — T. ndndorensis has both upper and loiver mandibles 

 entirely black, while in T. hargitti (as noted by Prof. Steere) 

 the upper mandible is blackish and the lower horn-white, 

 as in the black-rumped species, T. javensis. The white spots 

 at the base of the first and second primaries appear to be 

 a variable quantity, and may, or may not, be present. 

 T. mindorensis is also stated to differ from T. hargitti in 



