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Show 1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 691 purple-brown ; nails black, b, d: iris dark chocolate ; feet purple-grey.] Seen from above, this Nightjar is difficult to distinguish from five examples of C. affinis, ex Lombock. Underneath it conspicuously differs in having the ventral plumage and the thigh-coverts transversely banded with narrow brown lines, instead of being uniform pale rufo-fulvous. The two outer pairs of rectrices in C. affinis are throughout pure white ; in these examples of C. griseatus the inner webs of the basal third are pale ferruginous banded with brown. o*. Wing 6*37 inches, tail 4*0, middle toe 0*75. 19. CACOMANTIS MERULINUS (57). [San Mateo, a, d: iris yellow ? ; beak very dark brown; feet dirty ochreous; claws black, b, d: iris pale reddish; legs light chrome-yellow; claws black, c, d: iris pale reddish; bill black ; legs ochreous yellow ; nails black ; interior of gape red.] 20. EUDYNAMIS MINDANENSIS (61). [Monte Alban. d' iris crimson; bill greyish-green; legs dark lead-grey; nails black.] 21. DASYLOPHUS SUPERCILIOSUS (62). [Monte Alban. a, d '• iris pure chrome-yellow ; orbital skin and base of beak fiery orange ; bill pale green ; legs greenish chrome ; claws dark grey, b, 2- * iris chrome-yellow ; orbital skin orange ; bill pale green, deep orange at base ; legs yellow, tinged green on tarsus ; nails grey.] Sexes alike. 22. LEPIDOGRAMMUS CUMINGI (63). [Monte Alban. a, d- iris crimson; orbital patch ditto; bill horn-yellow; legs grey, b, d- iris and orbital skin crimson; bill horn-yellow: legs and feet light grey, c, d- iris and orbital skin crimson ; bill horn-yellow; legs dark lead-grey. d, $ : iris and orbital skin crimson ; bill horn-yellow ; legs and feet grey.] Sexes alike. 23. CENTROCOCCYX VIRIDIS (64). [Monte Alban. a, d * iris crimson; bill black ; legs dark lead-grey, b, d juv. : iris crimson ; bill and claws black ; legs darkest shade of lead-grey. San Mateo, c, $ : iris bright crimson; bill black ; legs lead-grey ; claws grey-brown, d, $ juv. : iris brown; legs dark-grey; beak lead-colour.] Mr. Everett sends a series of seven individuals, four in adult and three in immature plumage. The dimensions of the male and female are alike ; and this is the case in a larger series obtained by Dr. B. Meyer (/. ci). Count Salvadori (Ucc. Borneo, p. 70) has united the larger C. affinis (Horsf.) with the smaller C. javanensis (Dumont), on the ground that they respectively represent the two sexes of the |