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common Rorqual {Balcenoptera borealis) are very different to those of B. brydei, 

 in the former the bristles are comparatively short and much curled while 

 in the latter they are longer, thicker and quite straight. In the accompany- 

 ing block it will be seen that in this respect the baleen of B. mf^zW* resembles 

 much more closely that of B. brydei than B. borealis. In shape also the 

 baleen of B. indica seems to resemble that of B. brydei. Mr. Olsen suggests 

 that on account of the coarseness and shape of the bristles of B. brydei '' it 

 would hardly be possible with its imperfect straining apparatus to keep 

 back such small crustaceans as the CalanidcB which form the principal food 

 of B. borealisJ'' He also mentions that the food of B. brydei consists chiefly 

 of fish, usually a variety of the herring, but that it also takes small 

 sharks and one Captain reported to him the finding of 16 large penguins 

 and a gannet in the stomach of a Bryde's whale. 



N. B. KINNEAR. 



Bombay, SOi/j March 1915. 



No. IX. 



-THE ORANGE-BELLIED CHLOROPSIS IN THE 

 KATHA DISTRICT, U. BURMA. 



I saw a pair of these birds, which I afterwards shot, in a tall tree in ever- 

 green and bamboo jungle 2,C00 ft. up in the hills some 20 miles east of 

 Wuntho station, Katha district ; they were apparently feeding on insects 

 among the leaves and my attention was drawn to them by the twittering 

 whistle they were making, very similar to that of the other chloropsis. I 

 have not seen any more of this species. Harington records this bird as 

 occurring in the Upper Chindwin, but he does not mention it in his Bhamo 

 lists. 



C. E. MILNER, i.F.s. 



Shwebo, 20^/j January 1915. 



