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Show 1878.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 615 indeed, D. leemostictus is shown to also inhabit New Ireland or D. megarhynchus N e w Britain. Male and female. Upper surface of wings and tail burnished bronze-green. Glistening scale-like feathers on crown of head bluish metallic green. Neck-hackles and pectoral and gular spots dark metallic steel-blue ; these spots, which extend from lower part of the throat and cover the breast, are lengthened and ovate in form rather than round, and occupy the tips of the feathers. With their exception, the entire under surface is dull jet-black. The nape, back, and uropygium is black with a blue gloss. The tail is forked for about one inch in depth; and the distance between the extremities of the outer pair of rectrices is nearly three inches ; upper tail-coverts tipped with metallic green. Dimensions:- Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. in. in. in. in. 3 2 5*5 5*5 1*0 1*5 [P. Princesa, 3, November 1877: iris crimson; bill and feet black. 2 > December : iris deep brown.] All the female birds have the iris noted as being deep brown by Mr. Everett. On the label of one of the males Mr. Everett has written:-"Iris in the living bird deep crimson." D. palawanensis most nearly resembles D. leucops, D. pectoralis, and D. leemostictus ; but, besides being much smaller, the shape and position of the pectoral and gular spots are different, not being so round, but narrower. 13. BUCHANGA LEUCOPH^A. Dicrurus leucophceus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 587. Buchanga cineracea (Horsf.), Sharpe, t. c. p. 324. no. 48. [P. Princesa, 3, November 29, 1877 : iris crimson ; bill and feet black. 3, December : iris deep rich orange-brown. $ , December : iris orange-brown.] 14. CYORNIS BANYUMAS. Muscicapa banyumas, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 146. Muscicapa cantatrix, Tern. Pl. Col. 226. [P. Princesa, 3, December 1877 : iris chocolate ; bill black ; legs and feet purplish grey; claws dark grey. $, January 1877: iris chocolate ; bill black ; legs lead-grey.] The female of this species is well described, but badly figured, by Temminck (I. c). 15. HYPOTHYMIS AZUREA (85). [P. Princesa, $, December 1877: iris deep brown; bill entirely black, interior of gape golden : legs and feet dark blue-grey.] 16. HIRUNDO JAVANICA. Hirundo javanica, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, t. 100. [P. Princesa, 2, December 7, 1877.] |