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Diceum trigonostigma flaviclunis, subsp. nov. 
6. Differs from D. t. trigonostigma, croceoventre, and 
megastoma by the rump being bright yellow, but not orange, 
the orange of the upper back and underside much paler, the 
latter being more yellow than orange. 
Hab. Java and Bali. 
Type: g ad. Karangbolong, South Java, on or May 
1901. Ernst Prillwitz coll. (Tring Museum). 
It is strange that this very distinct form has not been 
separated before. 
Mr. Oberholser described, besides D. hypochloum from 
the Anamba Islands, three more new subspecies from the 
islands off the west coast of Sumatra : D. t. antiproctum from 
Simalur, D. ¢. lyprum from Nias, and D. t. melanthe from 
Pulo Lasia. (Two Nias specimens seen by me do not seem 
to differ from Sumatran ones, but the material is not fit to 
decide from.) 
Dr. Harrerr also explained that Orivlus luteolus (cf. p. 63) 
was the earliest and correct name of the Black-headed 
Indian Oriole, hitherto called Oriolus melanocephalus. A 
note about this was sent to the Editor of the Bull. B. O. Club, 
but too late for imsertion. The question will be fully 
discussed in ‘ Novitates Zoologice.’ 
Mr. H. M. Watts said that he had heard from Mr. 
Heatley Noble of a clutch of Kestrel’s eggs each one of 
which was entirely smeared with sheeps’ dung. 
Mr. G. C. Lampert showed a collection of small beetles’ 
wings from broken-up pellets found in the nest of the Little 
Owl. Lord Rothschild remarked that although beetles 
formed a considerable proportion of the food of the Little 
Owl on the Continent, it had, in this country, to a great 
- extent developed the habit of robbing other birds’ nests and 
had been known even to attack and kill a Kestrel. 
