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Show 1S//.J THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 827 38. MACRONUS STRIATICEPS. Macronus striaticeps, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 331. [Surigao, cf, June. Iris white ; bill blackish ; legs purple grey.] 39. Ixus GOIAVIER (99). [Surigao, cf 2, May. Iris rich dark brown; bill, legs, feet, and nails black ; Placer, cf, July.] 40. POLIOLOPIIUS UROSTICTUS (101). Poliolophus urostictus (Salvadori), Sharpe, t. c. p. 334. [Surigao, cf, May. Orbital ring lemon-yellow, a. $, May. Ins dark brown ; orbital ring yellow ; bill black ; legs dark grey.] By the words "orbital ring" Mr. Everett probably means the nude eye-wattle and skin surrounding the eye. Sexes alike. 41. HYPSIPETES PHILIPPINENSIS (102). [Butuan, d 2 > May.] Not separable from Luzon, Zebu, and Guimaras examples. It is not, as might have been expected, H. rufigularis-a representative species which occurs at Pasananca (South-west Mindanao). 42. CRINIGER EVERETTI. (Plate LXXXIV.) Criniger everetti, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. II. ser. 4, vol xx p. 535 (December 1, 1877). cf 2 • Above almost golden-yellow brown. Feathers of forehead, vertex, and occiput sublanceolate, brown, margined with golden yellow. Lores yellow. Feathers at base of mandible and cheeks yellow-tipped. Throat, neck, and upper breast brownish ochreous-yellow. Chin, lower breast, abdomen, ventral region, axillaries, under tail- and wing-coverts sulphur-yellow. Inner webs of primaries brown. Exposed surface of all the quills and the wing-coverts like back. Inner margin of inner webs of quills pale yellow. Upper surface of rectrices like that of quills. Under surface pale brown, washed with yellow; inner webs margined with pure yellow. Shafts of quills and rectrices ruddy brown above; of quills underneath yellow at base and brown towards the end ; of rectrices bright yellow throughout. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. in. in. in. in. eS 4*50 2 4*35 4*62 4*25 0*87 0*87 1*25 1*12 [Surigao, cf, May. Iris dark burnt sienna-brown; bill black, mandible greyish; legs grey; claws dark grey. b. $, May. Iris dark sienna-brown.] Mr. Everett bas sent a series of thirteen specimens of this distinct species of Criniger. It is readily to be distinguished by its ochreous-brown throat and upper breast. The nuchal hairs are present. The dimensions of the adult females appear to be less than those of the |