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Show 1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 821 (Papag. ii. pp. 718, 719) in recognizing L. apicalis is overcome. Yet a comparison of the type is desirable; and until made it is best to allow Dr. Finsch's title to stand. Mr. Sharpe has been good enough to compare one of Mr. Everett's examples ( ? ) with the British-Museum example from Mindanao, labelled by Gray L. melanopterus, and writes that it agrees1. The British-Museum example labelled L. apicalis, Mr. Sharpe informs me, is somewhat larger, though he "wonders the specimens have been separated." 7. ASTUR TRIVIRGATUS (11). [Surigao, d, May. Iris golden yellow; orbital skin and cere greenish yellow; bill black, mandible whitish ; legs dark chrome ; claws black.] Mr. J. II. Gurney informs me that this example belongs to true A. trivirgatus, i. e. the small race. 8. SPILORNIS HOLOSPILUS (16). [Butuan, d, May. b. Surigao, $, May.] 9. HALIASTUR INTERMEDIUS (17). [Mouth of Butuan river, 2 • Iris brown; bill, cere black mottled with yellow; feet pale greenish yellow ; claws black.] In first plumage. 10. PERNIS PTILORHYNCHA. Falco ptilorhynchus, Tern. Pl. Col. t. 44. [Butuan, $, May. Iris white; bill black ; cere mottled with yellow ; feet chrome-yellow ; claws black.] The only example sent is in immature transition plumage. The entire under surface is tawny rufous, each feather with a bold dark-brown mesial stripe. Above the new feathers are brown, the old brown with broad fulvous or pale rufous margins. Mr. J. H. Gurney has been good enough to compare this Butuan individual with a Philippine example in the Norwich Museum, and has expressed his opinion that it is necessary to wait for more specimens before the question of its non-identity with P. ptilorhyncha can be decided. 11. THRIPONAX JAVENSIS (28). [Surigao, 2 > May. Iris Naples-yellow.] 12. MULLERIPICUS FULIGINOSUS. (Plate LXXXIII.) Mulleripicus fuliginosus, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, xx. p. 534 (December 1, 1877). d • Slaty smoke-grey. Feathers of the forehead, vertex, occiput, chin, throat, and neck with a terminal white or fulvous-white linear mark. Lores, ear-coverts, and ophthalmic region uniform grey. Feathers covering basal walls of mandible and the cheeks crimson. Wing 6*25 inches, tail 5*25, culmen 1*70, tarsus 1*00. 1 The specimen on which Dr. Finsch founded his title of C. hartlaubi. |