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Show 696 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [NOV. 6, 43. HYSIPETES PHILIPPINENSIS (102). [San Mateo, a, d- iris burnt-sienna brown; bill black; legs dark sepia-brown, b, 2 - his burnt-sienna brown ; bill black ; legs dark plumbeous. Monte Alban. c, d '• iris burnt-sienna brown ; bill black ; legs and nails blackish grey.] 44. MONTICOLA SOLITARIUS (103). [Monte Alban. a, d * iris chocolate ; bill, legs, and claws black ; b, d: his dark brown ; bill and nails black; legs blackish brown.] Lower breast and abdomen almost pure dark rufous, a few of the blue and rufous feathers with albescent tips. Above with albescent tips and subterminal black marks. 45. PRATINCOLA CAPRATA (104). [Monte Alban. 2 ' iris dark brown; bill, legs, and claws black.] 46. COPSYCHUS MINDANENSIS (106). [San Mateo, a, d- his chocolate; bill, legs, and claws black. b, d: iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and claws very dark brown. Monte Alban. d, $ : iris chocolate-brown.] The adult female is dark glossy bluish-grey above. The chin, cheeks, throat, and breast a purer dead grey. The white of the abdomen somewhat sullied with rufescent. 47. CoRYDALLA LUGUBRIS (117). [San Mateo, a, d '• iris dark chocolate-brown; bill Vandyke brown, lower half yellowish ; legs ochreous yellow ; claws pale grey brown, b, 2 '• • iris dark chocolate; bill sepia-brown ; mandible yellow-brown; legs and feet brownish ochre-yellow; claws pale brown.] 48. ANTHUS MACULATUS. Anthus arboreus, var. japonicus, Schlegel, Faun. Jap. pp. 58, 139, t. xxiii., "Japan" (1842). Anthus maculatus, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 433 : conf. Brooks, Str. F. 1876, p. 278. Dendromanthus maculatus (Hodgs.), Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 135. no. 753. Pipastes agilis (Sykes), Gould, B. of As. pt. xvii. t. - (April 1, 1865). Pipastes maculatus (Hodgs.), Blyth, B. Burm. no. 224. [Monte Alban. d\ shot on the ground in the forest.] 49. PARUS ELEGANS. Machlolophus elegans (118). [Monte Alban. d * iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs grey.] This is a true Parus and not a Machlolophus as was sueeested bv Mr. Blyth. 55 ' |