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Show 1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 693 29. GRAUCALUS STRIATUS (74). [Monte Alban. a, d: iris pale lemon-yellow ; bill, legs, and claws black. San Mateo, b, d: iris pure lemon-yellow; bill, legs, and claws black.] Two examples in uniform plumbeous plumage. 30. VOLVOCIVORA? CARULESCENS (75). [Monte Alban. d: iris dark brown; bill, legs, and claws jet-black.] In full jet-black plumage. 31. LALAGE DOMINICA (76). [San Mateo, a, d. iris dark brown ; bill black, b, $ : iris dark brown ; bill and nails black; legs blackish-grey, c, 2 ' iris dark brown; legs plumbeous.] 32. DICRURUS BALICASSIUS (80). [Monte Alban. a, d' iris crimson ; bill, legs, and nails, black. b, 2 * iris crimson ; bill, legs, and claws, black.] 33. PHILENTOMA CYANICEPS (82). [Monte Alban. a, d: his rich dark brown; bill black; legs purplish brown, b, d '• iris crimson; bill black; legs and feet brown.] 34. LEUCOCERCA NIGRITORQUIS (83). [San Mateo, d- his very dark brown ; legs black ; claws black.] 35. CYORNIS PHILIPPINENSIS. Cyornis philippinensis, Sharpe, t. c. p. 325. Cyornis banyumas (84 partim). [Monte Alban. o": iris dark chocolate-brown ; bill black; legs light brown.] Five examples of a species of the genus Cyornis obtained at Monte Alban by Mr. Everett are distinguishable from C, banyumas, ex Java, by having the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white and not rufous, and the rufous of the breast paler. Above no difference is discernible. A Zebu bird collected by Dr. B. Meyer (t. c. no. 84) differs from the Luzon in being of a darker shade of blue above, especially on the head, and in having the frontal and superciliary feathers and the wing-coverts darker blue. The Luzon examples are not separable from the type of C. philippinensis in the British Museum. 36. H Y P O T H Y M I S A Z U R E A (85). [Monte Alban. a, d : iris chocolate-brown ; bill blue, tip black ; interior of gape pale yellow-green ; legs lead-blue ; nails black, b, d: iris dark brown; bill blue, tip black; legs lead-blue ; nails black. c, d * iris dark brown; blackish blue ; legs lead-blue, d, $ : iris dark chocolate-brown ; bill and nails black ; legs dark grey.] |