2 Mearns — A New Genii>< and Eleven Artv Philippine Birds. 



Leonardia wood! sp. nov. 



BAGOBO BIRD. Doo rimf/li-hah'-toinj (nas;ohn]. 



Type No. 192,2()0, V. S. National Museum. Original niunber, 13,689, 

 Male adult. Mount Ai.o at Todaya (4,000 feet altitude), Mindanao, P. I., 

 July 11, 1904. 



Description of type. — Third i)rimary equal to ninth ; tifth, s^ixth, and sev- 

 enth subequal and longest. Uppeiparts bistre, washed with burnt umber 

 on lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts. Tail blackish seal brown. 

 The feathers of the rump, which are very long and soft, have concealed 

 white spots. Sides of head and neck (including lores and ear-coverts), 

 breast, and abdomen slate-gray, the latter washed with white. Sides gray, 

 washed with burnt vimber, particularly on the flanks, some of tlie feathers 

 with concealed white spots. Thighs gray washed with burnt umber; 

 under tail-coverts tawny olive, the longest ochraceous; chin and throat 

 white. Iris reddish brown ; bill black ; feet and claws plumbeous. Total 

 length, 20ri mm.; alar expanse, 280 ; wing, 90 ; tail, 87 ; bill, measured from 

 nostril, 10 ; culmen, 16 ; tarsus, 88; middle toe and claw, 27. 



This genus and species are named in honor of Major-General Leonard 

 Wood, IT. S. Army, who, as Governor of the Moro Province, has encouraged 

 every form of scientific eifort in the Southern Philippine Islands. 



Pseudotharrhaleus griseipectus sp. nov. 



GRAY-BREASTED WOOD-ACCENTt)R. 



Type No. 192,259, U. S. National Museum. Mount Apo at 6,200 feet, 

 Mindanao, P. I., July 8, 1904. 



Adult female (type and only specimen). — Size similar to that of the 

 female of P. unirolor Hartert, assuming that the measurement "wing 92.5" 

 is a typograpliical error for 62.5 ; but the bill appears to be 2 millimeters 

 shorter. C<^loration similar to that of the male and female of P. anuhiliis 

 Grant, from which it may be readily distinguished by the shortness of the 

 tail, 81 mm. in the female of P. griseipectus and 86.36 in the female of P. 

 caud'daa. The outermost tail-feather is slender and abortive, measuring 

 32 nun. in length. Tarsus with six scutes. Rictal Ijristles scarcely dis- 

 cernable. Plumage soft and loose, the feathers of the back and nnnp 35 

 mm. in length, with gray bases and fluffy aftershafts ; webs of rectrices de- 

 composed and abrade<l apically. General color above burnt umber, washed 

 with Vandyke brown on rump and upper tail-coverts; tail darker; wing 

 quills brownisli black, the outer webs margined with the same cc^lor as the 

 upperparts, and extending to the outer webs of the underside of wing; 

 head darker, inclining to sepia, with a dirty grayish supraorbital stripe; 

 sides of throat, breast, and a wash down the center of the abdomen mouse 

 gray ; chin and middle of throat white, each feather with a grayish middle ; 

 sides, crissum, and under tail-coverts like the back; breast tinged with 

 gray; iris hazel; bill with maxilla black, mandible grayish horn-color; 



