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Show 764 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE O N [Nov. 20, 51. SARCOPS CALVUS (129). [Cebu, male, April. Iris brown, bare skin dull carmine, bill and legs black.] 52. OXYCERCA EVERETTI. Oxycerca everetti, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. ser. 4, xx. p. 96. [Cebu, male, March. Iris brown, bill black, mandible grey, legs dark grey.] Not separable from Luzon examples. Sexes alike. 53. MUNIA JAGORI (132). [Cebu, male, March. Iris brown, bill pale grey, legs dark grey.] In Mr. Everett's examples (male and female) the black mesial band is not confluent with the black of the breast. The species is very similar to M. rubrinigra, but has the black on the abdomen more fully developed. 54. OSMOTRERON VERNANS (135). [Cebu, male, April. Iris, inner ring light blue, outer ring light ochreous ; bill lead-grey, cere green, feet carmine, nails grey.] 55. OSMOTRERON AXILLARIS (136). [Cebu, male, April. Iris light blue-green, b. Female. Iris blue-green ; bill lead-grey, base dark-red ; feet greenish grey, nails grey.] In the adult female the cap is pure grey as in male. In the younger female the crown is dingy green. 56. RAMPHICULUS OCCIPITALIS (138). [Cebu, male and female, April. Iris, pale reddish-brown (female light yellow-brown). Basal half of bill vermilion, apical half yellow ; feet carmine, nails grey tinged yellow.] Neither in plumage nor dimensions do the sexes differ. Zebu examples cannot be separated from Luzon individuals. 57. PHABOTRERON NIGRORUM. Phabotreron nigrorum, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 346. Phabotreron leucotis (Temm.), Walden and Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 104, ex Negros. [Cebu, male and female, April. Iris brown, bill black, legs and feet bright carmine, nails grey.] The characters whereby Mr. Sharpe separated the Negros form of this genus from the nearly allied P. leucotis of Luzon belong also to the Guimaras and the Zebu birds. 58. CARPOPHAGA ,ENEA( 141). [Cebu, male, March. Iris and orbital ring bright crimson, bill lead-grey, feet dull purplish-crimson.] A series of four Cebu individuals cannot be differentiated from Luzon and Negros specimens. |