550 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



36. Lanius lucionensts, Linn. ; Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 119. 

 A male of the Luzon Shrike was shot on the Canloon 



volcano on 30rd April. 



37. Rhabdornis mystacalis (Temm.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1896, 

 p. 119. 



Mr. Whitebead makes tbe following remarks about the 

 nesting-babits of tlie Bridled Flower-creeper: — ''One of my 

 collectors shot a Rhabdornis, whicb be said was building a 

 nest in an old rotten branch of a tree. I was, of course, 

 sorry to hear tbe bird had been shot, or I might have been 

 able myself to testify to its nesting-habits ; but I have no 

 doubt as to the man's veracity, and his companion pointed 

 out the branch to me a few days afterwards. Natives, of 

 course, are by no means truthful, but as the man knew 

 nothing of the value of his observations, and had nothing to 

 gain or lose, we will assume that Dr. Gadow is quite correct 

 and that Rhabdornis is a Creeper, though I must say its 

 habits are remarkably like those of an Arachnothera." 



Birds from Leyte, Dinagat, and Mindanao appear to differ 

 somewhat from typical specimens of R. mystacalis from 

 Luzon and Negros. Dr. Gadow has already noted that the 

 bill in the Dinagat bird is much shorter than in specimens 

 from Manila; but another important difference appears to 

 be that the male of the smaller Leyte, Dinagat, and Mindanao 

 bird has the general colour of the upper parts reddish brown, 

 like those of the female ; whereas the male in Luzon and 

 Negros birds, of which we have examined many, always has 

 the upper parts much darker greyish brown, devoid of any 

 rufous tinge. 



Possibly it may eventually be found necessary to separate 

 the smaller southern form under some distinctive name, but 

 before doing this it is necessary to examine specimens from 

 other islands. 



38. Dendrophila cenochlamys, Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 2ndser. Zool. i. p. 338, pi. liii. fig. 3 (1876). 



Sitta cenochlamys (Sharpe); Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 viii. p. 359 (1883). 



