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  281 
  

  

  will 
  be 
  also 
  present 
  in 
  the 
  skeleton 
  of 
  the 
  former. 
  In 
  the 
  

   British 
  Museum 
  Collection 
  there 
  are 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  Cyano- 
  

   rhamphus 
  erythrotis 
  , 
  one 
  without 
  locality 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  from 
  

   the 
  Macquarie 
  Islands, 
  both 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  most 
  carefully- 
  

   examined 
  and 
  compared 
  with 
  my 
  own 
  specimen 
  from 
  An- 
  

   tipodes 
  Island 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  and 
  I 
  can 
  find 
  

   nothing 
  by 
  which 
  they 
  can 
  be 
  separated 
  from 
  each 
  other. 
  

   Indeed, 
  the 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  C 
  erythrotis 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  

   present 
  between 
  themselves 
  greater 
  differences 
  than 
  the 
  

   Antipodes-Island 
  specimen 
  does 
  from 
  either. 
  I 
  have 
  shown 
  

   the 
  three 
  specimens 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Sharpe, 
  and 
  he 
  quite 
  agrees 
  with 
  

   me 
  that 
  they 
  all 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  species. 
  The 
  name 
  of 
  

   C. 
  hochstetteri 
  becomes, 
  therefore, 
  in 
  my 
  opinion 
  a 
  synonym 
  

   of 
  C. 
  erythrotis. 
  I 
  am. 
  Sir, 
  

  

  Yours 
  &c., 
  

   1 
  Philbeach 
  Gardens, 
  Henry 
  O. 
  Forbes. 
  

  

  Earl's 
  Court, 
  S.W. 
  

  

  8th 
  Feb., 
  1893. 
  

  

  Sir, 
  — 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  H. 
  Everett 
  has 
  forwarded 
  for 
  my 
  inspection 
  

   a 
  small 
  collection 
  of 
  birds 
  obtained 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Haviland 
  on 
  Kina- 
  

   Balu 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1892. 
  The 
  only 
  species 
  of 
  interest 
  

   represented 
  in 
  it 
  is 
  Zosterops 
  squamifronSj 
  Sharpe, 
  a 
  species 
  

   discovered 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Hose 
  on 
  Mount 
  Dulit, 
  in 
  Sarawak, 
  and 
  

   now 
  recorded 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  from 
  Kina-Balu. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Haviland 
  also 
  procured 
  the 
  young 
  of 
  Androphilus 
  

   accentor, 
  Sharpe. 
  It 
  differs 
  from 
  the 
  adult 
  in 
  having 
  no 
  

   white 
  on 
  the 
  throat 
  nor 
  ashy 
  grey 
  on 
  the 
  breast, 
  these 
  parts 
  

   being 
  brown, 
  slightly 
  lighter 
  on 
  the 
  throat, 
  where 
  the 
  fea- 
  

   thers 
  terminate 
  in 
  dusky-black 
  spots. 
  The 
  labels 
  bear 
  the 
  

   date 
  of 
  April, 
  and 
  the 
  altitude 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  specimens 
  is 
  

   given 
  as 
  11,000 
  feet. 
  All 
  my 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  form 
  were 
  

   obtained 
  at 
  about 
  8000 
  feet. 
  

  

  I 
  am, 
  Sir, 
  

  

  Yours 
  &c., 
  

  

  John 
  Whitehead. 
  

  

  Sir, 
  — 
  When 
  I 
  published 
  my 
  description 
  oi 
  Loxops 
  ochracea 
  

   (Ibis, 
  1893, 
  p. 
  112) 
  Mr. 
  Scott 
  Wilson 
  had 
  not 
  issued 
  the 
  

  

  