422 Mr. E. Bidwell 07i some 



The specimen now sent by Mr. Hose is evidently a young 

 bird of this rare species. It is of a pale sulphur-yellow below, 

 with dusky spots on the fore neck ; the sides of the body are 

 also washed with olive greenish. 



Harpactes vidua. 



Harpactes vidua, Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. 

 p. 501. 



This species was described from a female bird procured on 

 Mt. Dulit by Mr. Hose. A second specimen, also a female, 

 was obtained by Mr. Whitehead on Mt. Kina Balu. Mr. 

 Ogilvie Grant came to the conclusion that these hen birds 

 belonged to an undescribed species near to H. orrhophceus, 

 and the discovery of the male bird confirms the correctness 

 of his identification. It differs, in fact, from the male of 

 the latter bird just in the same way as the females of the 

 two species differ, viz. in the wide and coarser vermiculations 

 on the wings. Like the male of H. orrhophceus, the rump is 

 reddish brown, not scarlet, as in H. duvauceli. 



IX. 071 the Generic Name Micropus. 

 Mr. Wiglesworth's letter (above, p. 318) is very instructive, 

 and if the generic name Micropus is to be retained for the 

 Swifts, as suggested by Mr. Ernst Hartert, then it must be 

 abandoned for the Bulbuls, and Microtarsus substituted. 

 Thus Microtarsus would include M. melanocephalus , M. fusci- 

 flavescens, M. cinereiventris, M. ph(ROcephalus , M. chalco- 

 cephalus, and M. melanocephalus. It has, however, been 

 the custom among English ornithologists to reject names 

 previously used in botany; and if this rule is followed, 

 Micropus would fail for both Swifts and Bulbuls, and 

 Cypsehis should be used for the former genus, and Micro- 

 tarsus for the latter. 



XXXVIII. — Note on some newly-discovered Eggs of the 



Great Auk. By Edwakd Bipwell. 



At the disposal by auction of the contents of the Little 



Hermitage near Rochester, on the 1 ith of March last, one 



