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Show 948 MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON THI* [Nov. 19, Dimensions : - Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. in. in. in. in. 3 ad 4*62 4*0 0*88 0*88 $ ad 4-50 4*0 0*88 0*88 2 juv 4*48 3*88 0*88 0*87 A representative form of V. morio ex Celebes, but altogether of darker shade of grey, with a black forehead, and with the inner margins of the quills grey, and not pure white. 46. LALAGE DOMINICA (76). [Zamboanga, $ , April.] 47. DICRURUS STRIATUS. Dicrurus striatus, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 545.no. 20. [Zamboanga, 2 > March : iris crimson.] 48. LEUCOCERCA NIGRITORQUIS (83). [Zamboanga, 5 > April.] 49. CYORNIS PHILIPPINENSIS (84 partim). Cyornis philippinensis, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 325. [Zamboanga, 2 * March.] 50. HYPOTHYMIS AZUREA (85). [Zamboanga, 2 > May: maxilla black, mandible light blue ; legs dark grey slate ; interior of gape yellow.] 51. BRODERIPUS ACRORHYNCHUS (90). [Zamboanga.] 52. ERYTHROPITTA ERYTHROGASTRA (94). [Zamboanga, 3 2 > March, April, May.] These examples all belong to E. erythrogastra, and not to the Balabac race named B. propinquus by Mr. Sharpe (Tr. L. S. (2) Zool. i. p. 330). The young Dumalon (Mindanao) example obtained by Dr. Steere, and doubtfully identified with B. propinquus by Mr. Sharpe (I. ci), in all probability belongs to E. erythrogastra. An immature bird, killed in April near Zamboanga, is dirty rufous brown above, with dashes of green ; rectrices blue; wing-feathers without a trace of blue; under surface dirty white, feathers margined with pale rufous brown ; some scarlet feathers on the breast; vent and under tail-coverts washed with brownish red. The females differ in the scarlet colouring of the abdominal region not being so intense and vivid, and in the throat not being so dark brown, almost black. The blue colouring of the breast is not exhibited until complete maturity, that part remaining green. In fully mature birds of both sexes the green pectoral band is almost entirely replaced by blue. |
