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description notes, the black subterminal band across the tail 
well developed, as in the adult birds sent by Count Salvadori. 
Again, comparing the Museum series of five adult speci¬ 
mens of O. monachus, plus the type of O. meneliki, with the 
whole series from the Turin Museum, we find the characters 
of the markings on the outer tail-feathers entirely reversed; 
for the former leads one to believe that the adult has no 
subterminal band and that the young has, whereas in the 
Turin series the reverse obtains. 
Fig. 1. 
Six lateral rectrices of specimen a (S ad.) 
of Oriolus monachus (Mus. Torin.). 
Fig. 2. 
Six lateral rectrices of Oriolus monachus\ 
adult specimen with black band nios 
defined (Mus. Brit.). 
But, after all, I have very little doubt that Count Salvadori 
is right, and that all the birds mentioned above belong to 
one species, O. monachus; and that the presence or absence 
of the black subterminal band across the outer tail-feathers 
is of very little importance, being characteristic of neither 
acre nor sex. Under the circumstances the mistake was 
almost unavoidable, and though I regret having advised 
Mr. Weld-Blundell and Lord Lovat to describe as a new 
