88 Mearns — Descriptions of Eight N'eio Philippine Birds. 



chest crossed by a narrow black band that extends backward in the median 

 line to the abdomen ; belly and under tail-coverts pale brovvnis^li yellow ; 

 sides olive-green shading to black anteriorly ; axillars and lining of wings 

 white ; inner web of quills edged with white at base ; edge of wing black 

 finely dotted with white. Total length of skin, 75; wing, 45; tail, 25 ; 

 culmen, 9.5 ; tarsus, 10.5. 



Lamprocorax todayensis sp. nov. 



MOUNT APO GLOSSY STARLING. KuhUee'-pn (Bagobos of Todaya). 



Type No. 192. S02, U. S. National Museum, from Todaya, on Mount Apo 

 at 4,000 feet altitude, July 11, 1904. Adult female. Collected by Edgar 

 A. Mearns. (Original number, 13,687.) 



This small sjiecies of Glossy Starling was abundant in the higl) forest 

 above the Bagobo village of Todaya, where small flocks flew with great 

 speed above the treetops, only alighting on the highest dry branches, 

 where they were with difficulty reached by shot. Alin'-dre, my Bagobo 

 hunter, shot several of them ; but I laid them aside, supposing them to be 

 Lcnuprocorax pauayeiisis, and they were finally thrown away spoiled. 



Description of iyj)e (female). — Similar to L. panai/erifiis, hut much smaller, 

 and otherwise differing as follows: The feathers of the nape and lower 

 throat are more rigid and, perhaps, relatively longer. Viewed in (certain 

 Hghts the plumage is less golden green, the gloss being purplish blue; the 

 wings and tail are dull purplish black, without metallic gloss; and 

 the throat is more decidedly glossed with violet-purple. Length of skin, 

 157; wing, 95 ; tail, 59; culmen, 13.5; l)ill from anterior border of nostril, 

 10 ; depth of bill at nostrils, 6 ; tarsus, 19. 



The following-named forms, eleven of which have heen previ- 

 ously described, have proved to be new to science: 



Tiirnix suluensis. 



Ml ( scadivora In } / ghor net. 



Ccqmmidgus affinls inindanensis. 



Musclcapida montigena . 



Gerygone rhizophorse. 



Leonardina * woodi. 



Pseud othai rl la lens griseipectus . 



Macronous mindanensis montanus. 



Brachypteryx mindanensis . 



Merida helleri. 



*The generic name Leonardia proposed by me for this genus, on page 1 of this vol- 

 ume, is preoccupied hy Leonardia Tappakgne-Canefki, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, ser. 2, 

 Vol. VII, 1890, p. 332, for a genus of marine slugs, and is here changed to Leonardina. 



