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Show 114 ON A NEW PHILIPPINE BIRD. [Jan. 16, 46. ORTYGOMETRA CINEREA (172). [Dinagat, 2, June : iris crimson.] 47. HYPOTANIDIA TORQUATA (177). [Dinagat, 2» June.] 48. BUTORIDES JAVANICA (197). [a. Dinagat, $ ; b. Nipah, 3 2» July * ins bright yellow; legs bright chrome-yellow.] No date on label of Dinagat example, but killed in June. 49. DYSPORUS SULA (214). [Dinagat, 3, June : iris white; feet light leaden-green ; bill whitish green.] In full white and rich brown plumage. Wing 15*30, tail 10*00, culmen 3*90, tarsus 1*60. 11. On a new Philippine Genus and Species of Bird. By A R T H U R , Marquis of T W E E D D A L E , F.R.S., President of the Society. [Received December 12, 1877.] (Plate IX.) Until Dr. Steere some three years ago discovered in the island of Basilan two species1 belonging to the Timeliidce, this natural family, so characteristic of the Indian region, was supposed to be unrepresented in the Philippines. Since then Mr. Everett has discovered a third species2 in the island of Dinagat, and a fourth, the subject of this note, in the island of Negros. This last bird is so anomalous in its structure that I propose to constitute it the type of a new genus, DASYCROTAPHA3. Base of maxilla densely clothed with short feathers, space behind the eye naked. Bill about the length of head, and formed as in Mixornis. Wing lengthened, longer than tail, first primary half the length of the second, which is a fifth shorter than the third, third a little shorter than the fourth, which is equal to fifth and sixth. Tail moderate and square. Tarsus strong; hallux with claw stout and long ; digits short, slender; outer a little shorter than inner. DASYCROTAPHA SPECIOSA, sp. nov. (Plate IX.). Head crested ; forehead with dense short plumes covering the base of the maxilla ; circle round the eye, whole space before the eye, tuft on the side of the base of mandible, chin and uppermost 1 Macronus striaticeps, Sharpe, and Dendrobiastes basilanica, Sharpe. a Mixornis capitalis, Tweeddale. s Savvs, villosus, et Kporacpoi, tempora capitis. |