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Show 1878.] ORNITHOLOGY O F T H E PHILIPPINES. 951 68. NECTAROPHILA JULIEE. Nectarophila juliee, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 547. no. 32, " Melanipa." Cinnyris juliee (Tweeddale), Shelley, Cinnyridee, pts. vii. & viii. [Zamboanga, 3 $, April: iris brown ; bill and feet black.J In some examples of the male the breast is suffused with orange-red ; in others little or no red is perceptible. 69. CYRTOSTOMUS JUGULARIS (123). [Zamboanga, 3 2 > March and April.] 70. ANTHOTHREPTUS CHLOROGASTER. Anthreptes chlorigaster, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 342 ; Shelley, Cinnyridee, pt. vi. pt. vii. t, [Zamboanga, $ , April: iris indian-red ; bill light umber-brown ; legs greenish leaden.] 71. RHABDORNIS MYSTACALIS (124). [Zamboanga, 3, April.] A single example, which differs from the Luzon species in its much shorter bill. Culmen barely 0*62, in tbe Luzon bird fully 0*75. The wing is also shorter ; and the colouring of the wings and back is warm brown, and not greyish olive-brown. 72. CORVUS PHILIPPINUS (125). [Zamboanga, 3, March.] 73. CALORNIS PANAYENSIS (128). [Zamboanga, 3, March.] 74. SARCOPS CALVUS (129). [Zamboanga, $, March.] 75. MUNIA JAGORI (132). [Zamboanga, 3 ?, March.] 76. OSMOTRERON VERNANS (135). [Zamboanga, 3 2 > March, April, May.] 77. PTILOPUS MELANOCEPHALUS. Columba melanocephala, Forster, Zoologia Indica, p. 16. no. 7, t. viii., ex Java (1781). [Zamboanga. a. 3, March : iris, orbital skin, and bill yellow, with more or less of a green tinge ; feet carmine, nails dark grey. 6. 3, April: iris yellow ; bill yellow-green.] Hardly separable from the Javan species. Wing 4*50. The tint of the throat-patch resembles that of P. xanthorrhous ; but the abdomen and crissum are yellow, and not orange. New to the Philippines. 62* |