Tlje Hon. Walter Rothschild comriiunicated the fol- 

 lowing note ou Hiraaiionc dolei : — 



" ^Ir. Scott Wilson, in the ' Proceeding? of tlie Zoological 

 Society ' for 1891 (p. IG6), described; under the name of 

 Himatione dolei. a bird from I\Innai which has not since been 

 identified. Throngli the kindness of 1\h\ Wilson I Ijave 

 been enabled to examine his type ; and I found, to ni}- 

 astonishment, that it was a very yonng specimen of the bird 

 wliich I had named Palmeria mirahUis. although no one 

 could possibly have made tliis out frcnn the description. 



'' As the type, therefore, pi'oves beyond doubt that Wilson's 

 bird is merely the young of my Palmeria, and as the latter 

 genus is very distinct and has nothing to do with Hima- 

 tione.. being a genus of the !Meliphagidce near QhcBiopiila and 

 not one of the Drepanididae, the name of this peculiar bird 

 must stand henceforth as Palmeria dolei (Wils.).'^ 



Dr. BowBLER Sharpe stated that Dr. Gregory, during 

 his recent expedition to Mount Kenia, had obtained Pina- 

 rochroa hypospodia and Nectarinia johnstord, at an elevation 

 of 14,000 feet. Dr. Gregory was too much occupied to be 

 able to spare time for collecting birds, but by procuring 

 examples of these two species he had shown that the avifauna 

 of jMount Kenia bears a close relationship to that of ]\Iount 

 Kilimanjaro, where the above-named, species had been dis- 

 covered at an altitude of 14,000 and 11,000 feet by Mr. H. 

 H. Johnston, C.B. Mr. F. J. Jackson had also procured 

 P. hypospadia ou jMount Elgon at 11,000 feet, but had not 

 met with Nectarinia johnstoni. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe announced that he had recently 

 examined a collection of birds found by Mr. A. H. Everett 

 in the western islands of the Sulu Archipelago. The fol- 

 lowing species appeared to be new to science : — 



1. ScOPS SIBUTUEXSIS, Sp. U. 



.S. similis S. mantananensi. sed alis extus vix albo notatis, et 

 remigibus intus vix fasciatis distinguenda. Long. tot. 

 8-0 pdl., alee 6-0. 

 Hub. Sibutu Island. 



