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and primary-coverts blackish brown, tipped and edged with lighter 

 yellow ; quills dark brown, externally edged with yellow, brighter on 

 inner secondaries and inclining to yellowish white at tip ; upper 

 tail-coverts rather browner, washed with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers 

 brown, narrowly edged with olive-yellow ; crown of head, occiput, 

 and nape black ; lores, eyebrow, and feathers round the eye white ; 

 the hinder eyelid a little mixed with blackish ; ear-coverts black, 

 mottled with white near the eye ; cheeks white, narrowly edged 

 with black ; throat, fore neck, and breast white, mottled with black 

 bases ; abdomen yellowish white ; sides of body, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts olive-yellow ; thighs somewhat washed with tawny ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries olive-yellow, with dusky brown 

 bases ; edge of wing bright yellow ; quills below brown ; inner edge 

 of quills paler ; " bill black, mandible Avhite ; legs pale brownish ; 

 iris clay-brown " (A. Everett). Total length 4"6 inches, culmen 0*6, 

 wing 1'7, tail 1-5, tarsus 0'85. 



The type specimen appears to me to be not thoroughly mature, 

 as the throat in fuU-plumaged birds is doubtless entirely black as 

 in 0. cinereiceps. The black head, however, is a character which is 

 very strongly pronounced, and seems to point it oi;t as a very distinct 

 species. 



Hab. Island of Mindanao, Philippine archipelago. 



5. Orthotomus castaneiceps. 



Orthotomus castaneiceps, Wulden, Ann. S) Mag. N. H. (4) x. p. 252 

 (1872) ; id. Tr. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 195 (1875) ; Shmye, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 114 ; id. Tr. Linn. Soc. new series, Zool. i. pp. 337, 352 (1877) : 

 Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 546, 1878, p. 286. 



Adult. Crown of head and nape, lores, and feathers below the 

 eye bright chestnut; sides of face white, the upper margin of the 

 ear-coverts chestnut ; interscapulary region dark slaty grey, gra- 

 dually shading off into olive-green, which is the colour of the rest of 

 the back and scapulars ; greater wing-coverts and quills dark brown, 

 all the feathers externally washed with bright olive-yellow ; tail- 

 feathers brown, margined narrowly with bright yellow, the ends of 

 the rectrices dull yellowish, with a subtcrminal mark of blackish 

 brown, becoming more distinct on the outer feathers ; under surface 

 of body silky white, the abdomen slightly washed with fulvous, the 

 sides of the upper breast greyish ; sides of body and under tail- 

 coverts olive-greenish ; thighs light tawny ; under wing-coverts 

 silky white, washed with yellow, brighter on the edge of the wing ; 

 bill dark horn-brown, the lower mandible much paler : legs fleshj' 

 yellow (in skin). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-1, tail 

 2-15, tarsus 0-i». {ColJ. J. B. Steere). 



The type, an adult male, has the following measurements : — 

 Total length 4-7 inches, culmen ()-7, wing 2-05, tail 2, tarsus 0-9. 

 A female from Valencia, Xegros, measures : — Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen (>7, wing 1-95. tail 2-05, tarsus l>95. 



Hah. Islands of Guimaras, Ncgros, and Panay, in the Pliilipjnne 

 archipelago. 



