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spotted with white, the spots larger on the primaries ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, with seven bars of white or reddish brown ; crown of 

 head and hind neck dark brown, the former spotted, the latter barred 

 with white or reddish white ; base of forehead and lores white, the 

 latter with black shaft-lines ; ear-coverts brown, barred across with red- 

 dish white ; cheeks and throat white ; remainder of under surface of 

 body white, the fore neck and breast chocolate-brown with reddish- 

 white bars ; the sides of the body and flanks white, with bars of red- 

 dish brown ; thighs brown in front, white behind ; under tail-coverts 

 white, with spots of reddish brown; under wing-coverts white with 

 a rosy tinge, mottled with brown near the edge of the wing ; axillaries 

 and lower primary-coverts uniform chocolate-brown ; quills dusky 

 brown, barred with white towards the base, which is marked with 

 rosy : " bill pale olive ; legs yellow ; iris yellow" (C. M. Woodford). 

 Total length 10 inches, culmen 0*95, wing 7'2, tail 3"6, tarsus \'4. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the breast and 

 abdomen broadly banded with pale rufous brov^'n. Total length 

 10 inches, wing 7'1, tail 3'5, tarsus 1"3. 



This species most nearly resembles Ninox punctulata of Celebes, 

 but it has the mantle uniform brown, not spotted, the bars much 

 more distinct on the under surface, and the fore part of the thighs 

 brown, whereas they are white in the Celebean bird. 



Fam. Campophagid^. 



Gratjcalus holopolius, sp. n. 



Adult female. General colour above blue-grey, the head like the 

 back ; wing-coverts slightly clearer grey than the back, especially on 

 the greater series ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 externally ashy grey, lighter on the edges of the inner secondaries, 

 which resemble the greater coverts ; tail-feathers black, the centre 

 ones ashy grey towards tlie base ; lores rather duller ashy, with a few 

 white spots above the upper margin ; ear-coverts rather darker ashy, 

 flecked with small white shaft-streaks ; cheeks and entire under 

 surface of body clear blue-grey, with a few indications of whitish 

 margins on the feathers of the breast and abdomen ; thighs and 

 under tail-coverts uniform blue-grey ; under wing-coverts paler blue- 

 grey, slightly varied with ashy-whitish cross-bars ; quills dusky 

 blackish, ashy towards the base, and edged with white along the 

 inner web: "bill and feet black ; iris black" (C. J/. Woodford). 

 Total length 9 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 4*3, tail 3*6, tarsus 0"85. 



Mr. Woodford has pointed out to me that the iris in this species is 

 black, thus showing that it cannot be G. j)usillus, with which I 

 was inclined to unite it. It is no doubt closely allied to G. pusillus, 

 but differs in having no black on the forehead and lores, and also in 

 having the ear-coverts streaked minutely with white. 



Edoliisoma erythropygium, sp. n. 



Adult male. Similar to the male of E. remotum, but darker grey : 

 "bill black; legs black; iris dark brown" (C. M. Woodford). 

 Total length 9 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4'55, tail 3-35, tarsus 0-9. 



