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Show 1878.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 109 13. HYLOTERPE PHILIPPINENSIS (78). [Dinagat, 3, June; b. 2 • iris d a r k brown; bill black; legs bluish grey.] Sexes alike-not to be distinguished from the type. 14. DICRURUS STRIATUS. Dicrurus striatus, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 545, no. 20. [Nipah, 3, July.] 15. LEUCOCERCA NIGRITORQUIS (83). [Dinagat, §, June.] 16. CYORNIS PHILIPPINENSIS. Cyornis philippinensis, Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 325, "Panay" (1876). [Dinagat, 3, June.] A single example, hardly separable from Zebu individuals, and agreeing with them in dimensions, consequently larger than Luzon and North-Mindanao specimens. Wing 3*66 inches, as against 2-95 ; tail, 3*00, as against 2*75. 17. HYPOTHYMIS CCELESTIS. (Plate VII. fig. 1.) Hypothymis coelestis, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 536, 2 (1 Dec. 1877). [Dinagat, $, June: iris dark-brown; bill blue tipped and margined black; interior of gape yellow-green ; orbital ring light green; legs grey blue.] 2 • Azure. Feathers of the head grey at their insertion, and each tipped with glistening azure ; a lengthened occipital crest similarly marked. Space before the eye and lores pale blue. Chin, cheeks, throat, sides of neck, and upper breast rich velvety turquoise-blue, darker than the blues of the rest of the plumage. Back and upper tail-coverts with grey bases to the feathers, the extremities being blue, which is paler on the upper tail-coverts. Wing-coverts of the same shade of blue as the head. Quills dark brown externally, margined with a paler shade of blue. Lower breast, abdomen, vent, flanks, and under tail-coverts white, tinged with pale greenish blue, most intense on the flanks. Axillaries grey, tinged with pale blue. Rectrices above like the quills; underneath dark brown like under surface of the quills. Shafts of the rectrices brown above, almost white underneath. Shoulder-edge blue. Wing 2*82 inches, tail 3*00, tarsus 0*62, culmen 0*56. A form nearly allied to H. azurea, but differing in its lengthened crest, its paler tints of blue, and in the absence of any black markings. The blue shade of the throat and upper breast is about equal in tint to that of the predominant colour of the older known species. 18. HIRUNDO JAVANICA. Hirundo javanica, Sparrm., Mus. Carls, fasc. iv. t. 100(1789). [Dinagat, 3, June.] |
