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The Hon. Walter Rothschild communicated the fol- 

 lowing note on Himatione dolei : — 



" Mr. Scott Wilson^ in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society ' for 1891 (p. 166), described, under the name of 

 Himatione dolei, a bird from Mauai which has not since been 

 identified. Through the kindness of Mr. Wilson I have 

 been enabled to examine his type ; and I found, to my 

 astonishment, that it was a very young specimen of the bird 

 which I had named Palmeria mirabilis, although no one 

 could possibly have made this out from the description. 



" As the type, therefore, proves beyond doubt that Wilson^s 

 bird is merely the young of my Palmeria, and as the latter 

 genus is very distinct and has nothing to do with Hima- 

 tione, being a genus of Meliphagidse near Chcetoptila and 

 not one of the Drepanididse, the name of this peculiar bird 

 must stand henceforth as Palmeria dolei (Wils.) ." 



Dr. BowuLER Sharpe stated that Dr. Gregory, during 

 his recent expedition to Mount Kenia, had obtained Pinaro- 

 chroa hijpospodia and Nectarinia johnstoni, at an elevation 

 of 14,000 feet. Dr. Gregory was too much occupied to be 

 able to spare time for collecting birds, but by procuring 

 examples of these two species he had shown that the avifauna 

 of Mount Kenia bears a close relationship to that of Mount 

 Kilimanjaro, where the above-named species had been dis- 

 covered at altitudes of 14,000 and 11,000 feet by Mr. H. 

 H. Johnston, C.B. (see P. Z. S. 1885, p. 226). Mr. F. J. 

 Jackson had also procured P. hyposjjodia on Mount Elgon 

 at 11,000 feet (see Ibis, 1892, p. 162), but had not met with 

 Nectarinia johnstoni. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe announced that he had recently 

 examined a collection of birds found by Mr. A. H. Everett 

 in the western islands of the Sulu Archipelago. The fol- 

 lowing species appeared to be new to science : — 



1. Scops sibutuensis, sp. n. 

 S. similis S. mantananensi, sed alis extus vix albo notatis, et 



remigibus intus vix fasciatis distinguenda. Long, tot. 



8-0 poll., alee 6-0. 

 Hab. Sibutu Island. 



