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Show 1878.] THE ORNITHOLOGY O F THE PHILIPPINES. 613 dark brown. Back, wing-coverts, outer edges of secondaries, and exposed surface of tertiaries and scapulars golden. Primaries and rectrices dark brown. Female. Differs from the male in having the top of the head dark uniform brown, almost black, the crest-plumes being terminated with crimson. Dimensions:- 3-. . $... Wing. in. . 5*37 . 5*37 Tail. in. 412 412 Tarsus. in. 1*00 100 Culmen in. 1*37 1*37 In one example ( 3 ) the lower breast-markings are not so well defined, and the general markings of the lower surface are less pronounced. The upper tail-coverts are mostly black, some only being tipped with crimson, others with golden. [P. Princesa, 3, November 25, 1877: iris dark brown; bill black, basal half of mandible grey ; feet greenish, nails grey. P. Princesa, $ , November 27, 1877: iris crimson; other parts as in 3i] 5. EURYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS (37). [P. Princesa, $, November 29, 1877.] 6. CACOMANTIS MERULINUS (57)? [P. Princesa, 3, December 10, 1877; iris bright salmon-red; bill black, mandible light brown ; feet yellow, claws black.] A single example, not sufficiently mature to be identified with certainty. 7. SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS. Cuculus lugubris, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 175. [P. Princesa, $, December 6, 1877: iris dark brown; bill black ; feet dark grey.] 8. PHCENICOPHAES HARRINGTONI. Dryococcyx harringtoni, Sharpe, t.c. p. 321. no. 34, f. 1. [P. Princesa, 3, November 29, 1877: iris light brown; orbital and loral space deep crimson ; bill light green, tinged with olive ; feet and legs lead-grey ; nails dark grey. $, December : iris brilliant yellow, with ring of ochreous orange.] Of other males M r . Everett notes the iris as being reddish brown. This Coucal is a representative form of P. curvirostris and P. erythrognathus, closely resembling both species, but differing structurally in the shape and position of the nostril. Mr. Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1873, p. 604) has generically separated P. curvirostris from P. erythrognathus, on account of the shape and position of the nostrils in those two species being different, and for the same reason has established (/. c.) the genus Dryococcyx for the reception of this Palawan |