14 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



with irregular transverse brown markings, and in some with brown centres. Scapulars 

 tawny rufous and pure rufous, irregularly marked with brown zig-zags, several with a 

 subterminal black mark and a terminal tawny rufous spot. Wing-coverts chestnut, with 

 brown vermiculations ; the greater coverts with large, pure white, ovoid terminal drops, 

 mostly situated on the outer webs, and bounded above and on the inner margins with 

 black. Quills brown on the inner webs, pale rufous on the outer, with obscure pale 

 brown marks. Tertiaries pale rufous on the outer webs, much indented with the brown 

 of the inner webs. Innermost tertiaries pale rufous on both webs, transversely marked 

 with cloudy brown. Tips of several of the inner webs of the quills pale rufous. Eectrices 

 pale rufous, traversed by several bars of rufous brown, each bar being bounded above and 

 below by a brown line. Penultimate pair of rectrices with rufous spots, rather than 

 bands. Exterior short pair with almost pure white spots on the inner web. Chin and 

 throat dingy rufous, intersected by brown zig-zag lines. A gular collar, formed of broad 

 feathers with a broad subterminal pure white band, bounded below and above by a 

 narrow dark brown band. Feathers of the upper breast dingy rufous freckled brown, 

 pale tawny rufous at the base, with brown transverse lines and traces of white spots on 

 the margins of some of the webs. Concealed lower breast and flank-plumes mostly pure 

 white, with dark grey markings near the base, and terminated with rufous freckled with 

 brown. Abdominal feathers pale albescent rufous, striated with brown, and some marked 

 with pure white. Feathers of the ventral region isabelline white, with small obscure pale 

 tawny rufous margins. Under tail-coverts isabelline, the longer with subterminal marks 

 of brown and rusty. Under wing-coverts greyish white, banded with rufous brown. 

 Thigh-coverts dark rufous brown. Stiff nasal plumes rufous, tipped brown. Wing 

 6 inches, tail 4"5, tarsus 0'68, middle toe 075, bill (from forehead) T12, width of gape 

 1'37. The tarsus is feathered anteriorly for about one-fourth of its length ; the bill is 

 massive. 



14. Eudynamis mindanensis, Linn. 



Cuculus mindanensis, Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 169, No. 3, 1766. 



Eudynamis mindanensis, Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc.,vol. ix. p. 162; Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, pp. 

 543, 691, 823; 1878, p. 946; 1879, p. 70. 



[No. 392, ? \ 



No. 393, t ■ \ Malanipa, Eyes red.] 



No. 394, ? J 



Malanipa is a new locality for this species ; but, from its proximity to Mindanao, the 

 examples may be considered typical. 



The two males are in full black plumage, with a green gloss. They have, however, 

 a shorter wing than Guimaras examples, the only other Philippine examples I have been 



