One immature example (sex not determined) was shot by Mrs. Robb White at Sagada, Bontoc, northern Luzon in July 1913 and given to Governor Forbes. This, I believe, is the first record for the species in the Philippines. The specimen, M. C. Z. 64,621, affords a wing length of 366 mm. XANTHOLAEMA HAEMACEPHALA HAEMACEPHALA (Muller). Two adult males, Mindoro, July. (Also two old skins in M. C. Z. labeled "Manilla"). Stuart Baker, (Ibis 1919, p. 219), has already pointed out the strong characters that distinguish the Philippine form of this little Barbet. I include it in these notes merely to emphasize the fact that it must be kept distinct from birds from India, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, etc. Its long bill, dark colors, and heavily striped under parts at once distinguish it. XANTHOLAEMA ROSEA INTERMEDIA Shelly. Four adults, both sexes, Negros, July. This is another strongly marked representative form, peculiar to the Philippines. It differs from _X. rosea rosea_ (Dumont) of Java etc. in its very much larger bill (averaging 22 mm. as against 16 mm. in true _rosea_), slightly larger size, darker colors, and much more heavily striped under parts. LALAGE NIGER MITIFICA, subsp. nov. Twelve specimens, both sexes, Lubang near Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan, Camiguin, Camotes, Basilan, Panay, Mindoro, and Cagayan de Sulu, June, July, and August. TYPE.--M. C. Z. 64,329 adult [Male], Lubang, near Luzon, 6 July, 1913. W. Cameron Forbes. CHARACTERS.--Similar to _L. niger niger_ (Forster), (type-locality "in India Orientali" which I will farther restrict to Singapore, being as likely as anywhere else to have been whence the type actually came), but larger; in color the adult [Male] differing in the sheen of the head and back being darker and more purplish, less greenish; the rump slightly darker gray and the tibia grayer, less whitish. The adult [Female] decidedly grayer less brownish above--deep neutral gray (the upper parts in _L. nigra nigra_ are hair-brown to Chaetura drab). REMARKS.--Birds from Java are small and appear to be quite like those from Singapore and the southern Malay peninsula. The Borneo bird is a little larger and the one female before me is gray above as in the Philippine form. MEASUREMENTS. _Lalage niger mitifica_ Bangs. CULMEN NO. SEX LOCALITY WING TAIL TARSUS FROM BASE