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Show 762 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE O N [Nov. 20, 39. CORYDALLA LUGUBRIS (117). [Cebu, male, April. Iris brown, maxilla brown, mandible pale ochreous, legs and feet light ochreous.] 40. PARUS ELEGANS (118). [Cebu, male, April. Iris brown, bill dark, legs and feet lead-blue.] Not separable from Luzon examples. 41. DENDROPHILA OXNOCHLAMYS. Dendrophila cenochlamys, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 338 t. liii. f. 2 (1876). [Cebu, male and female, April. Iris orange-yellow, bill greenish yellow]. The male example has all the rectrices broadly tipped with the vinaceous colour of the breast. In the female the middle pair are throughout blue, while the laterals only exhibit a vinaceous tinge at their apices. 42. ZOSTEROPS EVERETTI, n. sp. [Cebu, male and female, April. Iris light yellow-brown, maxilla blackish, mandible and legs pale grey]. Male and female.-Above oil-green, darker than in Z. palpebrosus, and much darker than in Z. meyeri of Luzon. Narrow frontal band and lores, chin, throat, under tail-coverts, and shoulder-edge bright yellow. Below the eye a distinct black mark. Breast and flanks pale but decided iron-grey. Mesial band of abdomen, extending to vent, bright yellow, llectrices above pale brown washed with oil-green. Wings 2-06, tail 1*87, tarsus 0*70, culmen 0*50. This species, closely allied to Z. lateralis, is to be distinguished by its green rectrices. 43. PRIONOCHILUS QUADRICOLOR, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 2.) [Cebu, April. Iris dark brown ; legs, bill, and feet glossy black.] The sex is not stated on the label. Chin, throat, cheeks, sides of neck, breast, flanks, under wing-coverts, axillaries, abdomen and under tail-coverts pale greyish silky white, the chin, cheeks, and axillaries being almost pure white. Forehead, sides of head, vertex, and occiput, descending low down the nape, dull black. Interscapulars and back black, broadly tipped with cinnabar-red. Uropygium black with olive-yellow tips to the feathers. Upper tail-coverts, rectrices, and wing-coverts rather glossy bluish black. Quills dark blackish brown. Wings 2*12, tail 1*25, tarsus 0*50, culmen 0*37. This is one of the most important additions made by Mr. Everett to the Philippine fauna, adding, as it does, one of the hitherto missing characteristic Malayan genera; for, although Mr. Sharpe (t. c.) in- |