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Show 262 DR. F. H. II. GUILLEMARD ON BIRDS COLLECTED [Mar. 17, The immature male, g, is of a uniform dull yellow, the back washed with greenish as in the female, rump bright yellow. 1 he large ill-defined yellow frontal patch shades off posteriorly into a greenish black occipital and nuchal patch ; lores greenish yellow ; wmg-feathers brown, some of the secondaries washed on the outer web with greenish yellow ; two middle rectrices yellowish brown ; breast with a few black stripes. Bill pinkish yellow, iris dull crimson ; length 29*5 centims. ; wing 15*5 centims. A comparison of this series with the Philippine skins of 0. chinensis in the British Museum, does not show any apparent specific distinction, and Mr. Sharpe has regarded Mr. Low's skins of 0. suluensis as a subspecies of 0. frontalis of Wallace. I have skins of an Oriole from Palawan which are not separable from either, and I am therefore led to regard the Philippine, Sulu, and Palawan binls as identical, from which it is difficult to separate the Sulla Oriole. 30. PYCNONOTUS GOIAVIER (Scop.). Petit goiavier de Manille, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 59, pi. 28. Ixus goiavier, Walden, Tr. Z. S. vol. ix. part ii. p. 190. Hab. Luzon (Meyer); Leyte, Negros, and Bohol (Everett); Mindanao (Everett, Murray); Basilan (Everett); Sulu (Guillemard). a-c, d . Sulu Island. d, 2 • Sulu Island. Iris brown ; bill and claws brownish black. Length circa 20*8 centims.; wing 7*4-8*8 centims. Is chiefly found in the thicker jungle, and sings well. Differs from P. analis (Horsf.) of Borneo, in having the auricular region brown (Salvadori). 31. MACRONUS KETTLEWELLI, sp. nov. (Plate XVIII. fig. 2.) Brunneus; dorsi plumis filiformibus, elongatis, versus basin nigri-cantibus; rachide, et partibusplumce rachidi adjacentibus, albidis; alis fulvescenti-brunneis, exteriuspallidioribus ; supracaudalibus caudaque pallide castaneis; pileo dorso concolori, rachidibus plumarum albidis; fronte nigricante, magis distincte striata superciliis, loris et regione paroticu nigricantibus, albo lineatis; genis et corpore tolo subtus pallide cervinis; hypochondriis brunnescentibus ; gula summa et abdomine medio albicantibus; gutture et corporis lateribus vix albido lineatis; subalaribus pectori concoloribus; iride smaragdinea; rostro et pedibus brunneis. Long, tot. circa 0*140m ; al. 0*063m ; caud. 0*070m ; rostr. 0-015m; tars. 0*024m. Hab. Insula " Sulu" dicta. a, 6* • Lukatlapas, Sulu Island, May 18th, 1883. The only example obtained. It was shot close to or on the ground, in a patch of jungle near the centre of the island. The iris is a beautiful clear green, in shade not unlike that of the Bornean Cymbirhynchus. I have named this interesting new |