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nally broadly -washed with ashy like the mantle, the greater series 

 ■washed with reddish browu ; bastard-wing feathers dark brown, ex- 

 ternally ashy whitish ; primary-coverts and quills dark brown, 

 externally rufesccnt, paler on the primaries, the inner secondaries 

 broadly edged with ashy ; upper tail-coverts dull ashy, with distinct 

 shaft-streaks of dark brown ; tail-feathers brown, Avashed externally 

 with rufesceut brown and waved with dusky bars under certain 

 lights ; crown of head and nape bright rufous, hind neck somewhat 

 mottled with very indistinct darker rufous centres ; lores and a di- 

 stinct eyebrow white, the hinder part of the latter ashy fulvous ; eye- 

 lid whitish ; ear-coverts ashy, slightly tinged with rufous, with 

 distinct whitish shaft-streaks ; cheeks yellowish buff, with dusky 

 tips to the feathers ; sides of the neck ashy ; throat white, shading 

 into yellowish buff on the fore neck and chest ; breast and abdomen 

 white ; sides of the body ashy fulvous, the flanks browner ; thighs 

 clear fulvous-brown ; under tail-coverts fulvous with dusky centres ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish bufl^, mottled with black 

 near the edge of the wing ; quiUs below brown, pale rufescent along 

 the inner edge of the quills ; " bill brown, lower half grey ; legs 

 and feet whitish ; iris dull burnt-sienna brown or light clay-brown" 

 {A. Everett). Total length 9 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-75, tail 

 4-9, tarsus I'l. 



Adult male. Similar to the female in colour, and only a trifle 

 larger. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-85, tail 4-6, 

 tarsus 1-1-5. {Mus. R. G. Wardlmu Ramsay.) 



Hah. Philippine Archipelago — islands of Luzon, Negros, Cebu, 

 and Basilan. 



a. 5 ad.sk. Valencia, Negros, Aug. 1877. Capt.R.G.WardlawEamsay 

 4. Megalurus macrurus. 



Sphenoeacus macrurus, Salvad. Aim. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 35 



(1876). 

 Megalurus interscapularis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 85, pi. vi. ; id. 



Ibis, 1880, p. 308. 

 Megalurus sp., Lm/ard, Ibis, 1880, p. 308. 

 Meo'alurus macrurus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xvi. p. 189 



(1880) ; id. Oni. della Papuasia etc. ii. p. 420 (1881). 



• Adult (type of M. interscapularis, Sclater). General colour above 

 light brown, slightly olivaceous in tint ; the hind neck, mantle, and 

 scapulars streaked mesiallj" with blackish brown, more broadly on 

 the latter ; lower back and rump uniform light olivaceous brown, 

 the upper taU-coverts a little darker and with blackish mesial 

 streaks ; wing-coverts rather more fulvous-brown than the back, the 

 median and greater series centred with black, the bastard-wing 

 feathers somewhat more ashy ; primary -coverts and quills dark 

 brown, externally rufous, the inner secondaries ashy fulvous along 

 both webs : tail-feathers light brown, edged with fulvous-brown, 

 and black along the shafts ; head uniform rufous-brown, with a few 

 faintly indicated black streaks ; lores and a well-defined eyebrow 



