Mearns — A New Genuf^ uml Eleven New Philippine Birds. 1 



fniinatinr male (No. 192,1(>S, IT. S. National Museum, fVoni Alt. Ajx) at 

 6,000 feet, June L'O, 1004).— T^nderparts washed witli raw umber as in 

 adult females; upperi)arts Kli<rhtly 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). — Tlie 

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

 Upper[)arts dusky, waslied 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 und)er. 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 aduils, excei>t that the eyelids are dull green- 

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



Tliis species is named in honor of Mr. Fletcher L. Keller, my faithful 

 companion on Mount Apo. 



Qerygone rhizophorse sp. nov. 



PHILIPPINE MANGROVE GERYGONE. 



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

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

 (original number, 1.3,059). 



This species is most closely related to Genigcme fldvculu Cabanis from 

 the Celebes and G. xiiltytdarii 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. Fiom the Bornean species, which it resembles in size, 

 it differs in having the sides of the breast almos^t as yellow as in theCelebean 

 species instead of olive-brown, in liaving the crissuni ncaily pure white 

 instead of pale yellow, in having the inner edge of the (|uills white instead 

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

 feathers ver\' much laiger. 



Adult male <niil frmalf (seven s|)ecimens). — Upjierpaits, including entire 

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

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

 and broadly banded with blac^kish, tipt)ed with drab-gray, and with a 

 W'hite s[>ot near tlie end of the inner wel) of all the tail-feathers except the 

 innermost ])air ; wing-coverts like the l)ack ; ((uills darker biown and nar- 

 rowly edged with olive; whole underpaits straw yellow exccjjt 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. 



