( 540 ) 



In this new genns the bill is shorter than the head, the nostrils in front of 

 the feathers at the base of the bill, and protected by a membrane, but apparently 

 (unless damaged by a string) rather open in front. The wing is short, round, and 

 soft. The first primary is of about half the length of the second, the second a little 

 more than three-quarters of the third, the fourth, fifth, and sixth subequal and 

 longest, the seventh very little shorter than the sixth, the following ones gradually 

 shorter; the secondaries as long and shorter than the second primary. Plumage rich 

 and soft ; the upper and under tail-coverts full, broad, soft, and long, nearly or quite 

 half as long .as the tail. Tarsus longer than toes ; tarsus covered with large 

 scutellae, which in one of the two specimens are more fused on the upper part. 

 Tail graduated ; rectrices broad, soft, and somewhat pointed at the tips. 



4. Stasiasticus mentis sp. noy. 



cf. Above dark olive-brown with a rufous tinge, more visible on the back, 

 upper wing-coverts, and outer edges of quills; tail more olive. Feathers of chin and 

 upper throat white with blackish bases and tips, those of fore-neck blackish with 

 whitish fringes ; breast and abdomen white along the middle. Sides of neck grey; 

 sides of breast and abdomen olive-brown. Under wing-coverts dusky with dirty 

 white borders. Under tail-coverts brown with white borders, the basal ones slightly 

 tinged with rufous olive. L. t. ca. 155 mm. ; al. 55; caud. 66 ; rectr. exter. 33 ; 

 tars. 20 ; culm. 1314. 



Two specimens, both marked c?, from between 9000 and 10,000 feet, on Mount 

 Arjuno. 



5. Sitta azurea Less. 



Shot at 3000, 8000, and 9000 feet. Male and female do not differ if the birds 

 before me are properly sexed. If they are, then the birds described as "females 

 and immature birds " by Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. VIII. p. 357, are all immature 

 birds, and not adult females. 



6. Aethopyga mystacalis (Temm.). 

 At 3000 feet. 



7. Aethopyga eximia (Horsf.). 

 At 9500 feet. 



8. Chalcoparia singalensis (Gm.). 

 One female, 3000 feet. Throat very dark. 



9. Zosterops javanica (Horsf.), 

 At nearly 10,000 feet. 



10. Zosterops citrinella Bp. 



Two males, shot at 8000 and 10,000 feet above the sea, belong to Z. eitrinella 

 of Timor, but they are also the same as Z. neglecta, Seebohm in Bull. B. 0. C. I. 

 p. xxvi., and Whitehead, Explor. Mt. Kina Balu, App. p. 261 (1893). 



Z. neglecta has never been properly described, but only diagnosed as follows : 

 " Similis Z. palpebrosae, sed magis olivasceus, et macula anteoculari obscuriore 



