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Show 760 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [Nov. 20, 28. HYPOTHYMIS AZUREA (85). 29. HIRUNDO JAVANICA. Hirundo javanica, Sparrman, Mus. Carls, t. 100. [Cebu, male, April.] New to the Philippines. 30. BRODERIPUS ACRORHYNCHUS (90). Oriolus acrorhynchus, Vigors, P.Z.S. 1831, p. 97. Oriolus chinensis, Linn., apud Sharpe, B. M . Cat. Birds, iii. p. 203. no. 12, nee Linn. Mr. Sharpe has recently (/. ci) adopted the Linnean title chinensis for this purely Philippine species, for the reason that that title is " undoubtedly referable to the Oriole of the Philippines" (I.c.p. 197, note). Linnaeus gave the name to Brisson's Loriot de la Cochinchine (Orn. ii. p. 326); and Brisson states that the subjects of his description were brought to Reaumur by Poivre from Cochin China. Judging from the description, also, Brisson's bird could not have belonged to the Philippine species ; for he describes it as possessing a yellow alar speculum, which the continental form has, and the Philippine bird lacks. After saying that the wing-feathers are black, Brisson adds " quelques-unes des moyennes sont terminees par une petite tache jaunatre." It is therefore not necessary to adopt so inappropriate a title as chinensis for the Philippine Oriole; and the name O. diffusus, Sharpe (I. c), for the continental species must be suppressed (cf. Walden, Blyth, B. Burma, no. 483). M. Oustalet (Ois. de la Chine, p. 132) correctly identified the Chinese Broderipus with the Brissonian species, and adopted the Brissonian title of cochinsinensis, but afterwards somewhat hastily accepted Mr. Sharpe's view, and placed that title in the list of errata and addenda. 31. ORIOLUS ASSIMILIS, n. s. (Plate LXXVI.) [Cebu, male, March. Iris crimson, bill dull burnt-sienna brown, legs dark lead-grey, nails black.] Male. Above and under tail-coverts dark greenish yellow; space before the eye, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat, and breast dark grey, the breast being tinged with greenish yellow ; abdomen, flanks, and ventral region grey or white, with broad almost black mesial bands ; axillaries, under-surface of quills, and under wing-coverts grey ; all the quills and major coverts above very dark grey, almost black, each washed with a pale grey on the outer webs, the wing, when closed, appearing dark grey. Tertiaries nearest the body distinctly tinged with greenish yellow. Minor wing-coverts like the back. All the rectrices above dark iron-grey, almost black. Outer pair with a pure yellow small terminal spot or mark at the apex of the inner web; all the others with slight indications of a terminal yellow margin. Wing 4*87, tail 4*12, tarsus 0*88, culmen 1*25. A representative form of O. steerii, ex Negros. Mr. Sharpe, who |