92 TIMELIID^. 



tarsus 0*95. It is probably the female, as it has the feathers of the 

 head and back strongly washed with brown. 



Ftmale or yoimg. Brown wheie the old male is glossy black, the 

 centre of the back and wing-coverts somewhat shining with black ; 

 no black gorget ; but the throat white, inclining to ashy brown on 

 the fore neck, the flanks very strongly tinged with rufous. 



Hab, Island of Luzon in the PhUippine archipelago. 



a. Ad. sk. Luzon. Gould Collection. 



b. Ad. sk. Cataguan, Luzon. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. 'C.I. 



d. -Ad. St. PhiUppine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.j 



e. Imm. sk. Philippine Islands. Zoological Society. 

 /. Juv. sk. [Philippine Islands]. M. Verreaux*. 



* Sold to the Museum as Cossypka pyrrhopygia, Hartl. Cf. Sharpe, /. c. 



