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Show 1878.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF T H E PHILIPPINES. 343 32. CALOBATES MELANOPE (115). [S. Leyte, $, September.] 33. MYZANTHE PYGMCEA (121). [S. Leyte, $, October: iris chocolate.] 34. ARACHNOTHERA FLAMMIFERA, n. sp. [S. Leyte, d, September: iris salmon-red; bill black; legs dark lead-grey.] Above uniform rich olive-green; chin, throat, sides of head, and neck pale grey; upper breast pale grey, tinged with yellow; lower breast a purer pale yellow; abdomen, flanks, ventral region, and under tail-coverts deep yellow; wing-lining silky pale grey, almost white; pectoral tufts (which measure some three quarters of an inch long) bright vermilion-red ; quills brown, margined with olive ; rectrices brown, all but the middle pair boldly tipped on the inner webs with white. Wing 245, tail 1*75, culmen 1*25, tarsus 0*62. The discovery of this species by Mr. Everett adds another characteristic Malayan genus to the Philippine avifauna. 35. NECTAROPHILA SPERATA (122). [S. Leyte, d, September.] 36. ARACHNECHTHRA JUGULARIS (123). [Amparo, <5 $ , July, August.] 37. CORVUS PHILIPPINUS (125). [S. Leyte, cS 2 > July.] 38. CALORNIS PANAYENSIS (128). [Amparo, J, August; S. Leyte, cS 2 > September and October, 3, juv., September : iris brownish ochre-yellow.] The young bird is in brown and striated plumage. 39. SARCOPS CALVUS (129). [Amparo, <$ 9, July.] These two examples have the whole back, from the nape to the uropygium, and also the scapulars dark brown. This is also the case in my Zebu series, and in some individuals from South Negros. In one Negros example the back is dark brown, many of the feathers being fringed with various shades of grey. In another the amount of grey and brown on the back is about equal; and it would seem that the grey colouring of the back belongs to the fully adult bird, and that the nape, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts assume the full grey colouring of the adult before the dorsal plumage commences to turn grey ; the whole of the upper plumage is brown at the base, the tips alone changing to grey. 40. MUNIA JAGORI (132). [Amparo, ? , July ; S. Leyte, c?, September.] |
