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Immature male (No. 192,168, U. S. National Museum, from Mt. Apo at 

 6,000 feet, June 20, 1904). Underparts washed with raw umber as in 

 adult females ; upperparts slightly darker than the female, faintly oliva 

 ceous, with the feathers finely rayed. Colors of the soft parts and measure 

 ments as in adult males except that the tail is about ten millimeters shorter. 



First plumage (5 specimens, taken on Mt. Apo in June and July). The 

 spotted plumage of the young resembles that of the European Blackbird. 

 Upperparts dusky, washed with raw umber, especially on the head, neck, 

 upper back and wing-coverts ; feathers of back with black edgings. Under 

 parts sepia brown, spotted with lighter shades of brown and with black. 

 The black spots are cordate on the breast, occupying the tips of the 

 feathers, which have light shaft-streaks and markings varying from wood 

 brown to burnt umber. Males are brighter and darker than the single 

 female. In all, a rusty band occupies the middle of the throat. The soft 

 parts are similar to those of adults, except that the eyelids are dull green 

 ish olive, and the base of the maxilla slightly dusky. 



This species is named in honor of Mr. Fletcher L. Keller^ my faithful 

 companion on Mount Apo. 



Qerygone rhizophorae sp. nov. 



PHILIPPINE MANGROVE GERYGONE. 



Type No. 190,097, U. S. National Museum. Adult male, from Zam- 

 boanga, Mindanao, P. I., October 14, 1903. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns 

 (original number, 13,059). 



This species is most closely related to Gerygone flaveola Cabanis from 

 the Celebes and G. saluadorii Biittikofer from Southern Borneo. From 

 the former it differs in its smaller size, in wanting the whitish lores and 

 the yellowish wash on the crown and ear-coverts, in the upper surface be 

 ing slightly darker, and the white spots on the inner web of the tail- 

 feathers much larger. From the Bornean species, which it resembles in size, 

 it differs in having the sides of the breast almost as yellow as in theCelebean 

 species instead of olive-brown, in having the crissum nearly pure white 

 instead of pale yellow, in having the inner edge of the quills white instead 

 of pale vinous, and in having the white spots on the inner web of the tail- 

 feathers very much larger. 



Adult male and female (seven specimens). Upperparts, including entire 

 top and sides of head, ashy brown tinged with olive; upper tail-coverts 

 browner; sides of neck yellowish olive; tail-feathers drab, subterrninally 

 and broadly banded with blackish, tipped with drab-gray, and with a 

 white spot near the end of the inner web of all the tail-feathers except the 

 innermost pair ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills darker brown and nar 

 rowly edged with olive; whole underparts straw yellow except the crissum 

 which is almost white; lining and edge of wing yellowish white; thighs 

 mixed straw color and olive-brown ; inner edge of quills whitish. Meas 

 urements of male: Wing, 50; tail, 39; culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 16. 



