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Show 1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 765 59. T U R T U R D U S S U M I E R I (147). 60. CHALCOPHAPS INDICA (150). [Cebu, male and female, April. Iris brown, bill orange-red, legs dark red, feet dull carmine.] 61. TURNIX NIGRESCENT, n. sp. [Cebu, female, April. Iris yellowish white, bill chrome-yellow, legs chrome-yellow, feet tinged with green.] While T. fasciata of Luzon chiefly differs from T. pugnax, ex Java, in its smaller dimensions and its broad uniform rufous nape, this Zebu bird somewhat exceeds T. pugnax in size, and is readily differentiated by the ground-colour of the crown, back, and uropygium being blackish brown instead of rufous. Like T. fasciata it also possesses a broad rufous nuchal collar. T. vupnax 9 : g „ d T. nigrescens 2 Dimensions. Wing. in. 3*37 306 300 2-86 3-50 312 Culmen. in. 0*68 0*62 0*62 0*50 0-75 063 Tarsus. in. 106 \ 0*95 J 0*83 1 0*75 ) 1-12 1 0-95 ; ex Java. Throat black. ex Luzon. ,, ex Zebu. „ 62. M E G A P O D I U S PUSILLUS, n. sp. (Plate LXXVIII.) [Cebu, male, March. Iris dark hazel, bill dark brown, legs very dark brown, nearly black.] The upper surface rich ruddy yellowish (almost golden) brown. Uropygium and upper tail-coverts and rectrices brown. Chin and throat dirty yellowish brown, the feathers being light grey at their insertion. Neck and upper breast slate-grey tipped with ruddy brown. Lower breast, abdomen, and flanks slate-grey, but faintly washed with ruddy brown. Ventral region paler grey tinged with ochreous brown. Thigh-coverts distinct ruddy, almost rusty, brown. Under tail-coverts dull ashy brown. Primaries uniform brown. Secondaries margined externally with the hue of the back. Tertiaries and wing-coverts like the back. Sides of head and forehead slightly paler than the head. Wing 6*25, tarsus 1*70, middle toe without claw 1, culmen 0*64. This small Megapode has the ophthalmic region, throat, and neck densely clothed, and belongs to a type different from M. cumingi. Mr. Sharpe has lately (P. Z. S. 1875, p. Ill) separated the Bornean Megapode from the then only known Philippine species, and given the title of M. lowii to the Bornean (Labuan) species. ' P R O C ZOOL. Soc-1877, No. L. 50 That |