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species, they are perhaps from a young individual, differing - somewhat 
in plumage from the adult. 
Melleripices javensis, (Horsfield) ; Picns leucogaster, Eein- 
wardt. Can this he truly from the Philippines ? 
Calornis albifbons, nobis, n. s. Nearly affined to C. daerices, 
(Pallas), with which it has probably been confounded ; hut with a 
shorter tail, the crown and throat white, with the same occipital 
black spot as in the other. Nape, mouth, rump and upper tail- 
coverts, brown ; the lower-parts dingy-whitish with a brown tinge, 
and a brownish-ruddy stain on the cheeks. "Wings and tail neaily as 
in the other. Hill and feet also similar. Length of wing 4 in. ; ol 
tail 2 in. only. Probably a female bird, less bright in colouring than 
the other sex. 
Corydalba iyfescata, nobis, ii. s. (C. hasseltit, Brehm, of 
Java?) Larger than C. refela, with a porportionally longer bill : 
the upper-parts much darker in colour, blackish with olive-brown 
lateral edgings to the feathers. Supercilia and lower parts albescent, 
whiter on the throat, with a few linear blackish spots on the breast. 
Outermost tail-feather chiefly white, with a dark stem ; the penul- 
timate dark on its outer web, and on the outer half of its inner 
weh, leaving the intermediate portion white. Bill dark above, yellow- 
ish white below ; legs and claws pale. Wing 3| in. ; tail 2f in. ; bill 
to gape 1 in. ; tarse l[r in. ; hind-claw in. 
Graecales Dussumieri, Lesson. 
Gr. lagenensis, Bonap., Comptes Eendus, tom. XXXYIII 
(1854), p. 540 ; where also the preceding species is noticed as inha- 
biting Mindanao, and as being distinct from the Gr. fasciates (Co- 
racina fasciata ofVieillot). Now the name fasciatus applies admir- 
ably to the Philippine bird here confidently presumed to he Dusse- 
mieri, which has the lower-parts from the breast beautifully banded 
with black and white ; the rump-feathers also having a subterminal 
black band and white terminal edge, the tertiaries also being rather 
broadly white-margined, the secondaries less broadly so, and the pri- 
maries having only a white extreme margin ; tail-feathers attenuat- 
ing at tip to a somewhat acute point, whereas in C. lagenensis 
they are broad and rounded at the tips. 
Volvo civora ? In the following page of the Comptes Een- 
dus, the late Prince of Canino recognised four species of Mr. Hodg. 
