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Lord Rothschild then made the following observations on 

 Edoliisoma incertum (Meyer) and E. meyeri Meyer : — 



'^ In the Jubilee Supplement to 'The Ibis,' Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant suggests that as the male of Edoliisoma meyeri is 

 almost indistinguishable from the male of plumbea Miill., 

 and that as E. meyeri sharpei Rothsch. & Hart, is only 

 smaller, the birds identified by us as meyeri sharpei from the 

 Utakwa and Setakwa Rivers were probably really males of 

 plumbea. Being now occupied in rearranging the Campo- 

 phagidse in the Tring Museum, we re-examined the whole 

 material of the amboinense-ceramense groups. It now 

 turns out that the type of E. meyeri sharpei and the speci- 

 mens from South New Guinea have nothing to do with the 

 amboinense group at all, which can be at once seen by the 

 different grey marking on the remiges. These birds belong 

 to the ceramense group, and are nothing more nor less than 

 the adult males of Edoliisoma incertum. 



'' The males of the ceramense group 'differ very slightly 

 from males of the amboinense group, other than in the grey 

 on the remiges, but, as a rule, the chin and throat is more 

 uniform with the lower surface, though in incertum it is not 

 so. The females are, however, very distinct; for while 

 the ceramense group has uniform grey females like the 

 males, the amboinense group has more or less rufous or buff 

 females, generally with barred or spotted undersides. 

 I exhibit ^ ? Edoliisoma incertum and ($ ? each of E. cera- 

 mense, E. amboinense rostratum^ amb. millleri, amb. admiralitatis, 

 and E. schisticeps poliopse for comparison." 



Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited and described a new lole 

 as follows : — 



lole philippensis satnratior, subsp. nov. 



Differs from lole philippensis philippensis from Luzon as 

 follows : Crown darker, more slaty grey ; back darker, 

 more olivaceous ; tail darker ; chest and sides of breast 

 darker, more olivaceous. 



Hab. Mindanao. 



