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Show 1877.] THE O R N I T H O L O G Y O F THE PHILIPPINES. 695 (= Gracula caudata, Cuv., apud Blyth), in the Philippines. Both Jerdon and Blyth appear to have been misled into identifying Franklin's bird with the Cuvieran type by some remarks of Lafres-naye's (Mag. Zool. 1st series, Timalia). Lafresnaye gave Franklin's diagnosis (P. Z.S. 1830-31, p. 118) and wrote that T. chatarcea "nous a paru etre le meme oiseau que celui intitule au Musee, Gracula caudata (Cuvier)." Lafresnaye described a bird in his collection and identified it with the type in the Paris Museum (said to have been obtained in Bengal by Dussumier in October 1820, but having, when Pucheran examined it, "Manilla" written on its label). And Lafresnaye's description (I. ci), and certainly Pucheran's of the type (already alluded to), will not apply to Franklin's bird. Blyth (Ibis, 1867, p. 6), in the belief that T. chatarcea, Franklin = G. caudata, Cuvier, mentioned, on Pucheran's authority, that it was found in the Philippines ; and I inadvertently gave Franklin's species a place in my list of Philippine birds (t. c. no. 97) although I stated that Indian authors seemed to have been somewhat hasty in identifying T. chatarcea with G. caudata, Cuvier. T. chatarcea may, for the present, be safely eliminated from our lists of the Philippine fauna. 41. MEGALURUS RUFICEPS. (Plate LXXII.) Megalurus ruficeps, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. iv. vol. xx. p. 94 (1877). 2 • Lower surface white, faintly tinged with cream-colour on the breast. Flanks pale earthy brown. Under tail-coverts pale dingy isabelline rufous; thigh-coverts of a more decided rufous. Space before the eye and supercilium, passing well behind the eye, greyish white. Forehead, head, and nape, pure bright uniform rufous. Back olive-grey, each feather broadly centred by a longitudinal stripe of brown. Uropygium and upper tail-coverts uniform olive-grey. The base of the long and lax uropygiai feathers pure dark grey, the tips only being olive-grey. Rectrices above dull ruddy brown, obsoletely barred with narrow brown lines. Quills brown, externally margined with ferruginous olive. Lesser wing-coverts olive-grey; greater tinged with ferruginous. Wing 2*75 inches, tail 5*25, tarsus 10, culmen 0*56. [Monte Alban. 2 • hght clay-brown; bill brown, lower half grey; legs and feet whitish.] 42. Ixus GOIAVIER (99). Monte Alban. a, d * iris bright brown ; bill black ; legs dark brown, b, d * bill, legs, and nails black, c, 2 ' bill and legs black ; iris brown. ,.„*,, , i , San Mateo, d, 2 • "is dark brown; bill black; legs dark grey, almost black.] . . All Mr. Everett's specimens (a series of eight) otthis species have the ear-coverts dark brown, the only character apparently which separates it from I. analis. The plumage of the two sexes does not differ. |