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I have not seen a specimen of Chsetura picina, the t3T)e of 

 which was collected by Everett in Mindanao. Whitehead se- 

 cured three specimens in Leyte, and I think the late E. A. 

 Mearns told me that he had collected one or more specimens in 

 Mindanao. 



Micropus subfureatus (Blyth). 



Cypselus subfurcatus McGregor, Phil Journ. Sci., Sec. A (1907), 2, 



346, Pis. IV and V, fig. 2 (Camiguin Island, north of Luzon). 

 Micropus subfurcatus McGregor, Man. Phil. Bds. (1909), 362. 



Mr. W. Cameron Forbes collected a specimen of this swift 

 at Sagada, Bontoc, Mountain Province, Luzon, on May 23, 1913. 

 The sex was not determined. The specimen is in the collection 

 at Harvard College. The only other Philippine specimen of 

 Micropus subfurcatus is the one in the Bureau of Science, col- 

 lected by me on Camiguin Island, north of Luzon. 



Zosteromis plateni (Blasius). 



Mixomis plateni Blasius, Journ. f. Om. (1890), 147. 

 Zosteromis plateni Grant, Ibis (1897), 233 (in key to species); 

 McGregor, Man. Phil. Bds. (1909), 530. 



Only the type specimen of this Zosteromis seems to be known. 

 In a small collection of birds obtained by Mr. W. Cameron 

 Forbes at Malabang, Mindanao, on July 31, 1913, 1 noted a male 

 Zosteromis that was undoubtedly Mixomis plateni. The fol- 

 lowing description was written at the time that I examined the 

 specimen : 



Male. — Back olive-brown, with faint whitish shaft stripes, 

 slightly rusty on occiput, tail coverts, and edging of rectrices; 

 feathers of forehead, sides of head, chin, and throat black with 

 conspicuous, white shaft stripes ; sides of neck and breast rusty 

 and with white shaft stripes; middle of chest and of abdomen 

 and tail coverts white; sides olivaceous; edging of wing feathers 

 dull olivaceous; axillars and lining of wing white; inner edges 

 of primaries and secondaries ochraceous-white. This species is 

 one-third less in size than Zosteromis capitalis, nigrocapitalis, 

 or affinis; and the colors, especially of the head, the chin, and 

 the throat, are remarkably different. The white shaft stripes of 

 these parts are particularly noticeable. Wing, 51.5 millimeters; 

 tail, 44; exposed culmen, 10; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 

 13. The specimen is now in the collection at Harvard College. 



The above measurements agree closely with those of the type : 

 " ? Long. tot. 12 cm. Ala 5.5 cm. Caud. 4.7 cm. Culmen 1.0 cm. 

 Tarsus 1.5 cm." 



