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Show 1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 823 washed with dark green and not with blue. The dimensions less. Wing 2*25. 18. ENTOMOBIA GULARIS (44). [Surigao, cf ?, May; Placer, cf, July.] 19. SAUROPATIS CHLORIS (47). [Mouth of Butuan river, d, May. b. Surigao, $ .] 20. XANTHOL^EMA H^EMACEPHALA (50). [Surigao, 2. May ; Placer, 2 (young), July.] 21. MACROPTERYX COMATUS (52). [Placer, cf, $ , July.] Wing 5*12. 22. COLLOCALIA TROGLODYTES (53). [Placer, £, July. Iris and legs dark brown ; bill black.] The sexes do not differ. 23. SURNICULUS VELUTINUS. Surniculus velutinus, Sharpe1, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 320. [Butuan, $,May. Iris dark chocolate-brown, bill and claws black ; feet blue-grey.] 24. EUDYNAMIS MINDANENSIS (61). [Butuan, cf, May. Iris bright crimson; bill greenish grev; feet darker greenish grey.] These and Malanipa individuals (anted, p. 543) have been compared and are identical, and the dimensions are about equal. The type, however, in all probability came from south-west Mindanao. 25. CENTROCOCCYX VIRIDIS (64). [Surigao, cf, May. Iris red.] 26. PYRRHOCENTOR MELANOPS (65). [Butuan, cf, May. Iris crimson; bill black; legs leaden, b. Surigao, cf • e. $ , May. Iris crimson.] The sexes, as represented in Mr. Everett's series, wear the same plumage, and are of equal dimensions. 27. BUCEROS MINDANENSIS. Buceros mindanensis, Tweeddale, anted, p. 543. [Butuan, cf, May. Iris bright yellow; orbital skin blackish, with a yellow streak under the eye; feet dull coral-red; claws blackish grey. b. Surigao, cf, May. Iris (in the living bird) pale green ; orbital skin sooty black, but yellow just below the eye ; skin of chin yellow; feet light coral-red ; claws dark brown grey. c. Surigao, 2 > May. Iris white; feet light coral-red; nails black.] 1 Mr. Sharpe has obliged me by comparing this Butuan example with the type. |