APPEITDIX 0. 175 



The measurements which I have given above of this 

 example (No. 3 on my list) and which I have taken very 

 carefully, diflFer a little from Lord Tvveeddale's, possibly owing 

 to some dissimilarity in the mode of measurement ; but the 

 figure in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society/ and the 

 description accompanying it, will readily serve to identify 

 this Philippine subspecies ; and for the convenience of such 

 of my readers as may not have access to the ' Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society^ I add the following particulars of 

 the specimen there figured and of the other adults of this 

 subspecies which I have examined : — 



No. 3. The entire upper surface exhibits a brown colour of 

 medium intensity, but with the crown of the head darker than 

 the back, and with a tinge of dull rufous on the cheeks and 

 ear-coverts, also slightly on the nape, and very slightly on the 

 edgings to the feathers of the least wing-coverts ; the tail is 

 of the same hue as the back, but with transverse bars of a 

 darker brown ; these are six in number, the uppermost one 

 being, however, very indistinct ; the primaries (of which the 

 fourth and fifth are longest and equal) are also brown, cross- 

 barred with darker brown, but with the interspaces above 

 the emargination tinged with buffy white on the inner web ; 

 the secondaries are similarly coloured to the primaries ; the 

 tertials are broadly blotched with white, limited in some 

 feathers to the inner, but in others extending to the outer 

 web also ; the throat is white, with a brown transverse mark 

 and also a hair-like shaft-mark on most of the feathers ; the 

 jugulum, flanks, and breast are rich rufous, but the feathers 

 of the breast have concealed transverse whitish bars, and 

 these become apparent and more decidedly white on the abdo- 

 men, the plumage of that part and also the thighs and the 

 axillaries being transversely barred with alternate markings 

 of rufous and white ; the crissum is white ; the under wing- 

 coverts are fulvous, irregularly crossed and varied with 

 brown. 



The following is a copy of the ticket attached to this 

 specimen by its collector, Mr. Everett : — '^ Zamboanga, ? , 

 April 1878 : iris golden ; orbital skin greenish yelloAv ; bill 



