REPORT ON THE BIRDS— PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 17 



Not, hitherto recorded from Zebu. Philippine examples of this species exhibit two 

 slightly differing phases of dress, one in which the upper plumage is of a light bluish and 

 cinereous colour, the other where it is more of a smoky brown and bluish ash. This 

 does not seem to depend on sex ; for one of these examples (ex Zebu, No. 369) is marked $ , 

 while I possess a Luzon example exactly similar, which Dr Meyer determined to be a $ . 

 The other Zebu example (No. 370) is marked ? , and is in the paler bluish-grey attire. 



19. Lalage clominica, P. L. S. Mull. 



Tardus dominicus, P. L. S. Miiller, Suppl., p. 145, No. 56 (1776). 



Lalage dominica, Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. ix. p. 178 ; Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, pp. 545, 

 693, 759, 826; 1878, pp. 108, 284, 342, 709, 948; 1879, \\ 70. 



[No. 358, ? . Ilo-ilo. Eyes brown. Stomach had insects.] 



20. Dicrurus striatus, Tweedd. (PI. IV.). 



Dicrurus striatus, Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1877, pp. 545, 826; 1878, pp. 109, 380, 614, 

 948 ; 1879, p. 70. 



[No. 418, t \ 



No. 419, t ■) Pasananca. Eyes red ; feet and bills black. J 



No. 420, ? J 



<? , ? . Nasal and frontal plumes black ; vertex and occiput clothed with glistening 

 green-black scale-like feathers ; nape, interscapulars, back, uropygium, and under surface 

 velvety bluish black ; feathers of lower throat and of breast with glistening, bluish-black, 

 central, narrow lines, imparting a striated appearance ; outer edges of the primaries (first 

 and second excepted), exposed surface of all the remaining quills, all the wing-coverts and 

 wing-lining, and the exposed surface of the rectrices glistening green-black ; quills above 

 and below and under surface of the webs of the laterals, black ; bill and feet black ; wing, 

 5 - 37 inches; tail, 4'62 inches; tarsus, 0"90 ; bill from forehead, I "44. 



Of the same type as-Dicrurus balicassius, with the tail but slightly forked. 



The figure (PI. IV.) is taken from specimen No. 420. 



21. Hypothymis azurea, Bodd. 



Muscicapa azurea, Bodd., Tab. PI. Enl., p. 41 (1783). 



Hypothymis asurea, Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. ix. p. 182; Proc. ZooL Soc, 1877, pp. 545, 

 693, 760, 826; 1878, pp. 109, 284, 615, 948; 1879, p. 70. 



[No. 406, t . Malanipa, Eyes hazel.] 

 An additional locality for this species. 



(zool. CHALL. EXP. — PART VIII. — 1880.) 11 3 



