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Show 1877.] BIRDS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 545 other where it is more of a smoky brown and bluish ash. This does not seem to depend on sex ; for one of these examples (ex Zebu, No. 369) is marked o*, while I possess a Luzon example exactly similar, which Dr. Meyer determined to be a 2 • The other Zebu example (No. 370) is marked 2, and is in the paler bluish-grey attire. 19. LALAGE DOMINICA. Turdus dominicus, L. S. Miiller, Suppl. p. 145. no. 56 (1776) ; Walden, t. c. p. 178. [No. 358, 2 . Ilo-ilo. Eyes brown. Stomach had insects.] 20. DICRURUS STRIATUS, n. sp. [No.418.tf.) No. 419, o* • \ Pasananca. Eyes red ; feet and bills black. No. 420, 2. J o*, 2 • Nasal and frontal plumes black ; vertex and occiput clothed with glistening green-black scale-like feathers; nape, interscapulars, back, uropygium, and under surface velvety bluish black ; feathers of lower throat and of breast with glistening, bluish-black, central, narrow lines, imparting a striated appearance ; outer edges of the primaries (first and second excepted), exposed surface of all the remaining quills, all the wing-coverts and wing-lining, and the exposed surface of the rectrices glistening green-black ; quills above and below and under surface of the webs of the laterals, black ; bill and feet black ; wing 5*37 inches, tail 4*62, tarsus 0*90, bill from forehead 1*44. Of the same type as D. balicassius, with the tail but slightly forked. 21. HYPOTHYMIS AZUREA. Muscicapa azurea, Bodd. Tab. Pl. Enl. p. 41 (1783) ; Walden, t. c. p. 182. no. 85. [No. 406, cf • Malanipa. Eyes hazel.] An additional locality for this species. 22. HIRUNDO GUTTURALIS. Hirundo gutturalis, Scop. Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 96. no. 115 (1786) ; Walden, t. c. p. 184. no. 88. [No. 362 (?). Caught on board the ship, Oct. 21, 1874, between the Moluccas and the Philippines.] 23. BODERIPUS ACRORHYNCHUS. Oriolus acrorhynchus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 97, " Manilla ;" Walden, t. c. p. 185. no. 90. [No. 347, cS. Ilo-ilo. Eyes white. Stomach had insects or, rather, grubs. No. 365, 6 -1 Mf.>ta- E'e,red-] No. 368, 2 J PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1877, No. XXXV. 35 |