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Show LS77.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 761 has kindly compared it with the type of 0. steerii in the British Museum, considers " that it is distinct from the Negros Oriole, and that it differs in having the greater wing-coverts grey and not yellow, and in having the spots on the tail-feathers so very small; the grey on the breast comes much lower down." 32. MEGALURUS RUFICEPS. Megalurus ruficeps, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 94. [Cebu, male, March. Iris dull burnt-sienna brown.] Identical with the Luzon types. The sexes do not appear to differ in dimensions. 33. HYPSIPETES PHILIPPENSIS (102). [Cebu, male and female, March. Iris burnt-sienna brown, bill brownish black, legs brown.] 34. PHYLLORNIS FLAVIPENNIS, n. s. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 1.) [Cebu, male, April. Iris hazel, bill lead-grey, yellowish along the margin, legs and feet greenish leaden.] The colours of the soft parts of the female are noted by Mr. Everett to be like those of the male, excepting that the yellowish commissure is not mentioned. Male. Grass-green above, pale verditer-green underneath. Lores, chin, throat, and thigh-coverts yellowish green. Primaries brown on their inner webs, tinged with dark green along the shaft; outer webs of first three primaries green tinged with yellow; lower half of the outer webs of remaining primaries margined with yellow. Inner margin of all the quills, seen from below, yellow. The female like the male, but the colouring not altogether so bright. Wing 3*75, tail 3*50, tarsus 0*80, culmen 0*87. If the four examples sent by Mr. Everett have the sex correctly noted (of which there is little doubt), and if the males are in mature plumage (and there are no indications of immaturity), the sexes in this species do not essentially differ. There is no trace of any blue in the plumage of the males. 35. PRATINCOLA CAPRATA (104). [Cebu, male, March and April. Iris brown, bill and legs black.] 36. COPSYCHUS MINDANENSIS (106). 37. PHYLLOSCOPUS BOREALIS. Phyllopneuste borealis, Blasius, Naumannia, 1858, p. 313. Phylloscopus magnirostris, Blyth, Walden, 7. c. no. 109. [Cebu, male and female, April.] 38. CALOBATES MELANOPE (115). [Cebu, male and female, March.] |