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Amblyornis, assuming that the male of A. inornata (Schl.) 

 was without a crest, as, indeed, has been generally believed 

 to be the case, though Dr. Sbarpe himself once rightly 

 doubted this fact. The specimen before me, having just 

 reached the Dresden Museum, leaves no doubt that it really 

 is the male of A. inornata, of which it has happened that 

 only young males or adult ones not in nuptial dress and 

 females have been known since the year 1871, when it "was 

 first described, a fate which it shared to a certain degree 

 with Drepananax bniijni (Oust.). The genus Xantho- 

 chlamys, therefore, must again give way to Amblyornis." 



Dr. Sharpe regretted that he had instituted a new generic 

 term for the Crested Gxardener-Birds of South-eastern New 

 Guinea, but pleaded that the number of specimens of Ambly- 

 ornis inornata -which had been received by European Museums 

 during the last twenty-three years — none of which had shown 

 the least trace of a crest — had warranted him in believing 

 that his genus Xanthochlamys was well founded. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvte-Graxt communicated a description of 

 two new species of birds from, the Philippine Islands, which 

 he proposed to characterize as follows ; — 



Call.eops, gen. n. 



Genus simile ^eneri' Arses' dicto, carunculam ophthalmicam 

 exhibens, sed crista longa lanceolata, cauda cuneata et 

 pedibus debilibus distinguendum. 

 Typus est 



Call.^ops periophthal.mica, sp. n. 

 amino ni^ra : pectore mediano abdomineque albis : sub- 

 caudalibus et axillaribus albo marginatis. Long. tot. 

 8"5 poU.^ alse 3"5, caudne 4<"5, tarsi 0*6. 

 Hab. in insula Philippiuensi 'Luzon' dicta. 



CiNNYRIS EXCELLENS, Sp. U. 



Similis C guimarascensi, Steere, sed fronte tautum chalybeo- 

 viridi, vertice nuchaque olivaceis, dorso aurantiaco, 



