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especially on the crown and forehead, in having darker and 

 more greenish-olive ear-coverts, all the feathers of the upper- 

 side having much darker grey bases, more greenish flanks, 

 and a black loral patch which is not developed in Z. meyeni. 

 These birds are named in honour of the late John Whitehead, 

 Avho so successfully explored the Highlands of Luzon. Wing 

 6 2 52-58-5, tail 36, bill 9 mm. 



Hab. Lepanto, Luzon, 5000 feet high, January 14, 1894. 

 (Type s ad., No. 819, Whitehead Coll.) 



ZoSTEROPS WHITEHEADI VULCANI, n. Subsp. 



Entirely like Z. w. whiteheadi but larger and with a dusky 

 shade under the eye. Wing 58*8, tail 40, bill 10*5 mm. 



Hab. Mt.Apo, Mindanao, 8000 feet, April 1903. (Type?, 

 Goodfellow Coll.) 



Obs. Evidently representing Z. w. whiteheadi on Mt. Apo, 

 but probably older forms will also come as subspecies into 

 this group, so that its name, i. e. that of the species, may have 

 to be altered eventually. 



Mr. Oscar Neumann made some remarks on Gallirex 

 johnstoni, Sharpe, from the Ruwenzori Mts., and pointed out 

 that this bird was not a true Gallirex but the type of a new 

 genus, which he proposed to call 



Ruwenzorornis, n. gen. 



This genus was intermediate in many respects between 

 Musophaga and Gallirex, having the area between the bill 

 and the eye and below the latter bare, but having the region 

 above the eye feathered. This bare space was about inter- 

 mediate in extent between that of M. violacea and M. rossce. 

 The bill was high, with the culmen rounded, starting from 

 above the eyes, very much compressed and showing a distinct 

 ridge, far more pronounced than in any genus of Musophagidce, 

 not excepting Corythceola. The nostrils in Ruwenzoromis 

 were not rounded as in Gallirex, but were longitudinal, as in 

 Musophaga. 



These striking characteristics of the bill were not indicated 

 in the plate drawn by Mr. Keulemans (Ibis, 1902, pi. v.), 



