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part of the feathers inclines to whitish buff, giving these parts a suffused brownish 

 buff appearance. 



The type of C. montana (Horsf.) measures : total length 5'1 inches ; wing 2-2 ; 

 tail 2-25 ; tarsus 0-88. 



The male type of G. oreophila Sharpe measures : total length 4-8 inches ; 

 wing 2-1 ; tail 2'25 ; tarsus 0'95. 



Both these species are most nearly allied to Cettia seebohmi Grant (cf. Ibis, 

 1894, pp. 507, 508). As in that species both have the sixth primary quill longest ; 

 but C, seebohmi is easily distinguished by its rufous wings and nearly white under- 

 parts. W. R. OGILVIE GRANT. 



3. Pomatorhinus montanus Horsf. 



Several skins from elevations of from 8000 to nearly 10,000 feet. In all these 

 the white stripe behind the eye is narrower than in nearly all the skins in the 

 British Museum, and does not fully join the white feathers in front of the eye. 

 These same peculiarities are visible in examples from Bali. If more material with 

 exact localities becomes available it may turn out that Java is inhabited by several 

 forms of this species. 



Stasiasticus * gen. nov. 



It is only with great hesitation that I create a new genus for this little bird, 

 but there seems no help for it, as its structure does not agree with that of any 

 other form known to me. It resembles very much the genus Androphilits Sharpe, 

 but differs from it in having much smaller and feebler legs and feet, in having 

 twelve, not ten, tail-feathers, and a somewhat differently shaped wing. I should 

 have united it with Pseudotharraleus Grant (Ibis, 1895, pp. 448, 449), if it had not 

 so considerably smaller and feebler legs and feet and a quite differently shaped 

 wing. It is also, in my opinion, not very far from Cettia (Seebohm, Gat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. V. p. 133), a genus of which I believe that it is wrongly placed in the 

 Catalogue of Birds, the structure of its wing, the number of tail-feathers (ten), the 

 eggs, and the rich plumage of the rump suggesting a place among the " Timeliidae" 

 It differs, however, from Cettia in having twelve (not ten) tail-feathers, and no 

 bristles on the gape.f 



os = seditious. E. H. 



f When discussing with Mr. Hartert the affinities of the new Java bird I was struck with the 

 apparent similarity of it and of some of the allied genera with Sjjkenoeacus, a genus which, in my opinion. 

 belongs to the same group of Timeliidae, and which cannot stand very far from Pseudotharrah-us and 

 Stasiasticus, the latter, however, being widely separated from it by the shorter, broader, and more 

 rounded tail, and the less powerful feet. While investigating these questions I found that only the New 

 Zealand species of Sphenocacwn have ten tail-feathers, the African ones not. The African species, besides 

 having twelve tail-feathers, have the operculum over the nostrils bare of feathers, while it is feathered 

 in the New Zealand ones ; the outer webs of the tail-feathers are fuller and more connected, while they are 

 very lax and separate in the species from New Zealand, and have a longer and stronger wing. There is, 

 therefore, no doubt that SpJienneacnx is not only placed wrong in the key given by Sharpe (fat. II. Jirit. 

 Mits, VII. p. 93), but that it is more reasonably divided into two genera, as Sharpe would have done 

 if he had counted the tail-feathers of the African Sphenocacus and noticed the other differences. The 

 gf-neric name being founded on the African species, it becomes necessary to create a new name for the New 

 Zealand group, which I propose to call 



Bowdleria gen. nov. 

 in remembrance of Dr. Bowdler Sharpe's invaluable Catalogue of the Timeliidae. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



