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Show H2 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [Jan. 15, _ 2 • Entire upper surface, wing-coverts, and surface of closed wing uniform pure olive-green, which colour encircles the eye and covers the sides of the neck. Space before the eye, cheeks, sides of throat, and the upper breast grey. Lower breast, abdomeu, flanks, and under tail-coverts the same grey washed faintly with olive-green, the mesial line being albescent. Chin and throat white, slightly greyish, forming a broad well-defined greyish white stripe, commencing at the chin and descending to the breast. Axillaries and under wing-coverts pure silky white. Remiges and rectrices dark brown, margined with the olive-green hue of upper plumage. Wing 2*12 inches, tail 1*25, tarsus 0*62, culmen 0*37. Since I described this species (I. ci) I have received the male, which in no way differs. 32. NECTAROPHILA SPERATA (122). [Dinagat, 3, June; b, 2 '• iris brown ; bill very dark brown; legs black, c, June : iris dark brown ; bill black, mandible brown ; legs black, d, 3 (juv.), June: iris dark brown, e, Nipah, 3, July.] I cannot separate example d ( 3 juv.) from examples o and c ( 2 )• A slight supercilium, chin, throat, cheeks, and whole lower surface pale uniform greenish-yellow, above olive-green. They differ from a supposed female, ex Surigao, described (P. Z. S. 1877, p. 830) by having the chin, throat, and cheeks uniformly coloured with the breast and abdomen, but agree in the ruddy colouring of the wing when closed. A fourth example (sex not stated on label) is undis-tinguishable from the Surigao female previously described (/. ci). 33. ARACHNECHTHRA JUGULARIS (123). [Dinagat, $, June.] 34. iETHOPYGA DUBIA, D. sp. [Dinagat, 3, June: iris yellow-brown; bill brown; legs dark grey ; feet ochreous. b, 3, June : bill and legs very dark brown. c, 2 > June: iris bright Indian-red ; bill black ; legs light brown.] 3 (juv. ?). Above, wing-coverts, and exposed surface of quills olive-green. Uropygium bright sulphur-yellow, forming a broad yellow band. Rectrices black, edged with olive; laterals tipped with pale yellow-olive. Feathers of the lower surface ashy at their base, and all tipped pale yellow ; lores the same; cheeks rather albescent-ashy. Under wing-coverts white; carpal edge very pale yellow. Quills dark brown. 2 • Like the male above described. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 3 1*82 1*12 0*62 0*75 2 l'SO 1*00 0*62 0*75 The three examples on which this species is founded are difficult to distinguish, by their plumage alone, from AH. belia 2 ve^ c? |