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Show 1879.] ORNITHOLOGY OF T H E PHILIPPINES. 71 (/. c.) on Dr. Steere's authority, Mr. Everett remarks Steere is in error in saying that the iris of Sarcophanops is like ' a clear crystal, crowded with specks of gold.' The iris is not yellow, but rich mineral green, and precisely resembles the iris of Cymbo-rhynchus macrorhynchus. If the describer had said ' a clear crystal of emerald, crowded with specks of gold,' the peculiar grained appearance of the eye and its colour would have been correctly indicated." The series sent by Mr. Everett corroborates Mr. Sharpe's statement (I. c.) that the females are distinguished from the males by having the breast pure white and not vinaceous. In Mr. Sharpe's plate of the species, the male bird is marked with the feminine symbol, and the female with the masculine. The Dinagat bird in no respect differs from these typical specimens. 29. BRODERIPUS ACRORHYNCHUS (90). [Basilan, $, May.] 30. ORIOLUS STEERII. Oriolus steerii, Sharpe, Cat. B. in Mus. Brit. iii. p. 213, t. Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 329. [Basilan, cf, May : iris carmine ; bill burnt sienna-brown ; legs dark grey.] The series sent by Mr. Everett enables me to compare O. steerii with its representative form 0. assimilis, ex Zebu, and to confirm the absolute distinctness of the two species. 31. ERYTHROPITTA ERYTHROGASTRA (94). [Basilan, sex ?, May ] Examples of an apparently immature female. 32. MEGALURUS RUFICEPS. Megalurus ruficeps, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 695, no. 41, t. lxxii. [Basilan, cf, June.] 33. MIXORNIS CAPITALIS. Mixornis capitalis, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 110, pi. vii. f. [Basilan, cf, June : ir^s orange ; bill blackish ; legs light olive-green.] 34. IRENA MELANOCHLAMYS. Lrena melanochlamys, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2. Zool. i. p. 334, no. 75. [Basilan, cf, June : iris pure Indian-red. $, May : iris pure Indian-red; bill and legs jet-black,] A representative form of I. cyanogastra, from which it appears only to differ by having the scapulars and interscapular region black, without any tint of purplish blue. |