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Obs. British East African birds have been erroneously 

 united with R. p. minor from Nubia, the Egyptian Sudan, 

 Abyssinia, and North Somaliland. — In 1908 Mr. Boyd 

 Alexander described as new Cotile sudanensis from Lake 

 Chad, and stated that it extended to the Nile. In the British 

 Museum examples of R. p. dohertyi were included among 

 the series of R. p. minor. Cotile sudanensis, Alexander, is 

 founded on specimens of the true R. p. minor, Cabauis, and 

 it was probably by comparing his birds with specimens of 

 R. p. dohertyi that Mr. Alexander arrived at the conclusion 

 that it was paler and smaller than R. p. minor. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant described a new species of 

 White-eye from the highlands of Ceram, collected by the 

 late Mr. W. Stalker :— 



ZOSTEROPS STALKERI, Sp. n. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to Z. atrifrons, Wallace, 

 from Celebes, but the black on the forehead is continued over 

 the crown to the occiput and sides of the head. 



From Z. subatrifrons, Meyer & Wiglesw., from the Sula 

 Islands, it is distinguished by having the throat bright olive- 

 green instead of yellow. 



Total length (measured in the flesh) ca. 43 inches ; 

 wing 2"2 ; tail 1*6; tarsus 06. 



Hah. Marsela, 2500 ft., N. Ceram. October 1909. 



Obs. Four adult male examples were procured by Mr. 

 Stalker. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant added the following remarks : — - 

 " Mr. Stalker procured a series of ten examples of the 

 true Pachycephala griseonota , G. R. Gray (cf. P. Z. S. 1861, 

 p. 429). 



" In the original description Gray gives the Island of Mysol 

 as the habitat of this species ; but the Museum label attached 

 to the type-specimen has ( Ceram ? ex Wallace,' and above 

 the word Ceram is ' Mysol/ written in pencil by G. B. Gray. 

 There can be no doubt that the type of P. griseonota is 



