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who know how to make skins, the Malay taxidermists that he 

 expected to join him at Singapore having failed to appear. He 

 has now, however, taught two men to skin birds fairly well, 

 although as yet they have no idea of how to make up their 

 specimens into good cabinet skins, and the whole of this work 

 has to be done by Mr. Whitehead himself. The specimens 

 in the first collection are as beautifully prepared as in former 

 years, and I hope this will be only the first of a series of 

 interesting records of unknown lands and their birds. 



The following is a list of the species represented in the 

 present collection from Mount Arajat : — 



1. Spilornis holospilus (Vigors) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. i. p. 293 (1874.). 



J ad. "Eye king's yellow; face pale yellow; legs yel- 

 low ; bill black, bluish at base." — J. W. 



2. Haliastur intermedius, Gurney ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. i. p. 314 (1874). 



? ad. "Eye brown; feet yellow; bill whitish yellow." — 

 J. W. 



3. MicROHiERAX ERYTHROGENYS (Vigors) ; Sliarpc, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. i. p. 369 (1874). 



The male has the inner webs of the primary quills irre- 

 gularly barred with wide white markings, while in the female 

 these parts are uniform black. I cannot find that any 

 reference has been previously made to this sexual distinction, 

 which is very marked in all the specimens I have examined. 



4. Oriolus chinensis, Linn. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 iii. p. 203 (1877) . 



Specimens from Luzon appear to diff'er constantly from 

 those from the more southern islands of the Philippines in 

 having the yellow forehead extending past the middle of the 

 crown, but some specimens represent intermediate stages, 

 and it is therefore impossible to consider the Luzon bird 

 different. 



Mr. Whitehead remarks that this bird is common. 



