534 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Graut on the 



8. DiCRURUs MiRABiLis, Walden & Layard ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 231 (1877) ; Steere, List Birds & Maram. 

 Philippines, p. 15 (1890). 



Mr. Whitehead sends a small series of this extremely 

 handsome White-bellied Drongo from the Canloon volcano. 

 We note that some specimens have the under wing-coverts 

 spotted with white ; apparently this difference is individual 

 and not due to age. This species has been obtained in the 

 islands of Masbate, Panay, Guimaras, Negros, and Cebu. 



9. Artamides panayensis^ Steere, List Birds & Mamm. 

 Philippines, p. 14 (1890). 



To Prof. Steere is due the credit of separating and 

 characterizing three of the different species of Cuckoo- 

 Shrikes which inhabit the Philippine Islands. All these as 

 well as the Cebu bird had previously been united with 

 A. striatus, which is confined to the island of Luzon. I 

 would take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation 

 of the excellence of Prof. Steere's work, and the sound 

 judgment he has displayed in discriminating the numbers 

 of new species he has described in the pamphlet quoted 

 above. The British Museum having recently acquired his 

 large Philippine collection with all his types, I have had 

 ample opportunity of forming an opinion of his work, and 

 his talents as an ornithologist have called forth my warmest 

 admiration. With much additional material for comparison 

 I find that in almost every instance his species are well 

 founded, and that his concise descriptions include all the 

 more important points of difference. 



His characters are, however, extremely short, and in his 

 new species of Artamides he has omitted to give any 

 description of the females, although it is to this sex that we 

 have to look for the greatest differences in plumage between 

 the various insular forms ; the males being in several 

 instances very similar one to another. 



To the six Philippine species already known I have been 

 obliged to add one. The Cebu Cuckoo-Shrike is a very 

 distinct form, though, with all the other species from the 



