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Show 1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF T H E PHILIPPINES. 697 50. CALLIOPE CAMTSCHATKENSIS (107). [Monte Alban. d : iris dark brown ; bill black, grey at base ; legs and feet purplish grey.] 51. PHYLLOSCOPUS BOREALIS. Phyilopneuste borealis, Blasius, Naumannia, 1858, p. 313. Phylloscopus magnirostris, Blyth, apud Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 168 ; Walden, t. c no. 109. [Monte Alban. a, d : iris brown; maxilla dark brown ; mandible yellow ; legs and claws pale clear brown. San Mateo, b, d : iris dark brown; legs raw-sienna brown ; maxilla dark horn-brown ; mandible horn yellow, c, 2 * iris brown ; legs yellow-brown ; bill brown ; lower half yellow.] As I anticipated (t. ci), the Phylloscopus from the Philippines, identified by Mr. Blyth with P. magnirostris, proves to belong to P. borealis. Four examples were obtained by Mr. Everett, in the month of February. The first alar bar is almost obsolete ; but Mr. Dresser has no doubt that they belong to P. borealis, and they agree well with my own series of that species. 52. ORTHOTOMUS DERBIANUS (112). [Monte Alban. a, d'- iris bright clay-brown; bill sepia; the mandible pale grey; legs and nails pale clear brown, b, d: iris bright clay-brown; bill dark brown ; mandible grey ; legs very pale transparent brown.] Moore accurately described this species of Orthotomus ; but in the figure the wings are coloured of too vivid a green. The wings are yellow-green. 53. BUDYTES VIRIDIS (114). [Monte Alban in February.] 54. CALOBATES MELANOPE (115). [Monte Alban. a, d- his brown ; bill light vandyke brown ; legs and feet pale transparent brown; nails vandyke brown, b, 2 • iris brown; bill dark lead-grey; legs pale transparent brownish grey. c, 2 ' his brown ; bill dark brownish grey ; legs very pale clear brown ; claws vandyke.] Average length of rectrices in five examples, 3*87. 55. MOTACILLA OCULARIS. Motacilla ocularis, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 55 ; P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 129, 130, woodcuts. [Monte Alban. $, March : iris, bill, and legs dark brown.] A single example with a grey back, a few dark feathers on the vertex, and a black pectoral plastron; forehead and a broad space over the eye white; a line passing from base of bill through the eye black. |