502 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



new species and in interesting forms of all kinds of bird-life. 

 Starting from Manila on the 1st of January, Mr. Whitehead 

 did not return till the 3rd of April, and the results of this 

 second trip have surpassed my most sanguine expectations. 

 There are examples of no less than 19 very distinct new 

 species, one of which {Zusterornis wMteheadi) I have been 

 obliged to refer to a new genus, most nearly allied to the 

 Timaliine forms Cyanoderma and Mixornis. But undoubtedly 

 the most interesting of Mr. Whitehead's discoveries is a small 

 resident Crossbill [Loxia luzoniensis) , most nearly allied to 

 the little Himalayan form (L. himalnyana). He obtained the 

 nest of this species, but no eggs. No doubt it had already 

 bred, for one of the birds sent was a young one in the striped 

 or immature plumage. I hope to receive some further notes 

 and particulars regarding this collection, but these are not 

 hkely to arrive for some months, and beyond the information 

 contained in various letters I have little or nothing to add 

 to the following list. The mountains in the north of Luzon 

 are difficult to work, being very steep, although in places as 

 easy to traverse as a park, and covered with beautiful pine- 

 trees and short grass. Very few mammals were obtained, 

 but the specimens included examples of the wonderful light- 

 grey gigantic rat {Phheomys cumingi) and of Paradoxurus 

 phil'qipensis. The climate between the beginning of January 

 and the end of February was remarkably dry, no rain to speak 

 of having fallen during that period ; the ground being burnt 

 up, very few insects were to be ound. Good collecting- 

 ground is apparently scarce, as the country has in many 

 places beeu much cleared, but possibly the new locality in 

 which Mr. Whitehead is now Avorking may turn out better 

 in this respect. Whatever the ground may be like, the results 

 of this trip are undoubtedly splendid, and there seems to be 

 every prospect of my receiving another, perhaps equally fine, 

 collection in a few months. 



Besides the new birds obtained by Mr. Whitehead, I have 

 proposed the name of Caprimulgus celebensis for a very 

 distinct form of Goatsucker from Celebes, which has been 

 hitherto confounded with C. manillensis, G. 11. Gray. Its 



