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Show 1877.J BIRDS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 549 35. CALORNIS PANAYENSIS. Muscicapa panayensis, Scop. Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 96. no. 110 (1786); Walden, t. c. p. 205. no. 128. [No. 384, o*. 1 No. 385, cf. > Camiguin. Eyes orange. Stomach had seeds.] No. 386, cf. J These examples do not differ from Luzon, Negros, and Zebu individuals. The locality is new. 36. MUNIA JAGORI. Dermophrys jagori, Cab. J. fiir O. 1872, p. 316. no. 6 ; Walden, t. c. p. 207. no. 132. [No. 339, cf. 1 7 K -i No. 340, 2 • J ZamboanSa*] Ihe two Mindanao examples do not appear to be in perfect dress. The rectrices of the female are tinged with ochre. New to Mindanao. 37. OSMOTRERON AXILLARIS. Treron axillaris, G. R. Gray ; Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 875 (1854) ; Walden, t. c. p. 211. no. 136. [No. 346, 2 • Uo-ilo. Eyes white ; feet greenish. Stomach had fruit.] New to Panay. 38. PHABOTRERON BREVIROSTRIS, n. sp. [No. 426, d1 • Pasnanaca. Eyes white ; feet coral-red ; bill black.] S. Forehead pale ruddy fulvous ; vertex pale grey, passing over into amethystine on the occiput and nape; from the gape, passing below the eye, a black line, bordered underneath by a white line starting from below the eye and reaching to the nape ; back of the neck emerald-green, becoming yellow-green lower down ; some of the lowermost feathers being amethystine, then bluish green, terminated by yellow-green ; others yellow-green, then amethystine, terminated with blue-green ; back mixed amethystine and dull yellow-green ; uropygium and upper tail-coverts dull yellow-green with scarcely any iridescence; wing-coverts the same, but tinged with amethystine; quills brown, edged with pale rufous or fulvous ; tertiaries like wing-coverts, but without any iridescence ; chin and throat pale ruddy fulvous like the forehead ; remainder of under plumage ruddy fulvous, with an amethystine tinge on the breast and sides of neck; under tail-coverts pale French grey; under wing-coverts like abdomen, but deeper in shade; middle pair of rectrices pure amethystine, with a dark grey terminal band tinged with amethystine ; remaining rectrices with a much broader terminal and pure grey band, the remaining part of each being deeply tinged with amethystine; outer pair with a broad, dark-brown subterminal band also washed with amethystine. Wing 4*75, tail 3*50, tarsus 0*75, bill from forehead 0*72. This is a small representative form of P. leucotis, from which it |