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Show 816 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [Dec. 4, bright ultramarine in certain lights, the subapical spots of primaries united into a continuous band, the postmedian band broader, the basal two fifths of interno-median interspace and the base of the cell white ; secondaries with one or two white spots on the border; vertex of head and collar bright carmine, not spotted with green as in C. ideeoides; abdomen bright metallic bronze-coloured, not pale metallic green: expanse, d 2 inches, $ 2 inches 2 lines. Several examples. This species is smaller than C. ideeoides, and somewhat more nearly allied to an undescribed species which Mr. Moore proposes to call C. argentata. LIMACODIDiE. 48. A N Z A B E SINENSIS. Anzabe sinensis, Walker, Lep. Het. v. p. 1093 (1855). One example. HYPOPYRHL-E. 49. SPIRAMA RECTI FASCIATA. Spiramia rectifasciata, Menetries, Cat. Mus. Petrop. iii. One example, a male. OPHIUSIDiE. 50. OPHIUSA FULVOT^ENIA. Ophiusa fulvotcenia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 272. n. 1710. One poor example. 3. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines.-No. III. O n the Collection made by Mr. A. H. Everett in the Island of Mindanao. By A R T H U R , Marquis of T W E E D D A L E , F.R.S., President of the Society. [Eeceived December 3, 1877.] (Plates LXXXII.-LXXXV.) Visited by the French naturalist Sonnerat some 106 years ago, large Philippine island of Mindanao has continued to be almost a terra incognita to the zoologist ever since, while the little knowledge of its animals we possessed was restricted to those inhabiting a small portion of its southern and western limb or peninsula in the neighbourhood of the principal Spanish settlement of Zamboanga. Dr. Steere and the naturalists of the 'Challenger' Expedition1 added some 40 species to the previously known total of nineteen Mindanao birds; but their researches were likewise confined to the country in the neighbourhood of Zamboanga. 1 Dr. Steere added some twenty-nine species, and the ' Challenger' Expedition eleven. |