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Show 1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY O F THE PHILIPPINES. 701 male, besides being much smaller, differs in having the throat almost white, each feather being but slightly tipped with brown. Wing. o* 3*87 ? 4-25 Tarsus. 1*00 1*06 Culmen 0*75 081 634, 757, 73. T U R N I X FASCIATA. Hemipodius fasciatus, Temm., Pig. & Gallin. iii pp " Philippines " (1815) ; Walden, t. c. p. 225. [Monte Alban. a,d: iris white; bill blackish, base yellow; legs light greenish-yellow, b, d : iris white ; bill greenish yellow ; culmen black; legs and feet light greenish-yellow; nails grey. c, d: iris white ; bill greenish yellow ; legs yellowish-green ; nails brown, d, $: iris ochreous yellow; bill and legs yellow tinged green, the bill clouded with blackish green, e, $ : iris white; bill greenish chrome, the culmen clouded; legs greenish chrome.] Mr. Everett has sent six specimens of a species of Turnix which agree well with Temminck's description. They are at once distinguishable from T.pugnax, ex Java, by the uniform broad light rufous patch on the nape, and by being much smaller, but otherwise are nearly allied. The abdomen in both sexes is white. From T. rostrata they differ still more. \\ d 2 ring. 3*00 3*25 Tarsus. 0*87 0*93 Culmen 0*50 0*60 74. C H A R A D R I U S F U L V U S (159). [San Mateo, a, d: iris chocolate-brown ; bill black ; legs pale lead-grey, b, $ : iris brown; legs light lead-grey.] 75. ^EGIALITIS DUBIA (162). [Monte Alban. a,d' iris warm chocolate-brown; orbital ring pure orange; bill black, base orange; legs grey; nails black. b, d: iris brown; bill black; legs ochreous yellow; nails black. c, 2 * iris dark brown; bill black, base yellowish ; legs purplish grey ; breeding, d, $ : iris dark brown ; bill and nails black ; legs ochreous yellow.] Seven examples, in various stages of plumage, of what is undoubtedly typical JE. dubia (Scop.) have been sent by Mr. Everett. A comparison made with these Luzon individuals and others of so-called JE. curonica (Gm.) and AE. minuta (Pall.), apud Jerd., from Europe and Asia (conf. Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 89), leaves me no other conclusion than that they all belong to one species. In dimensions examples vary considerably; but intermediate links occur uniting the smaller with the larger races. In markings and colouring there is little difference, and the proportionate length of the tertiaries to the first primary is very variable in birds even from the same locality. The species described by Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 1867, p. 164, no. 849) as M. philippensis, vera, is M. peronii (Hem.). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1877, No. XLVI. 46 |