25. mxoRNis. 575 



sides of the body yellowish olive, the under tail-coverts tinged with 

 brown : under wing-coverts and axillaries yellow or white, washed 

 with yellow, the edge of the wing yellow ; quills dusky brown, 

 yellowish white along the edge of the inner web ; " bill orange- 

 yellow ; iris crimson " (A. H. Everett). Total length 5"4 inches, 

 culmen 0'65, wing 2-65, tail 2'3, tarsus 0'8. {Mas. B. Q. Ward- 

 law Ramsay.) 



Hah. Island of Negros, Philippine archipelago. 



25. MIXORNIS. 



Type. 



Mixornis, Hudc/s. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 23 M. rubricapilla. 



CyanoJerma, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 213 (1874) M. bicolor. 



Range. Himalayan mountains and Central India ; Burmese 

 countries ; Malayan peninsula ; Java ; Sumatra ; Borneo. Islands 

 of Palawan, Basilan, Panaon, Dinagat, and Leyte in the Philippine 

 archipelago. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail-feathers not tipped with white. 

 a'. Underneath yelLiwisli. 



a". Abdomen uniform, not streaked with 

 black. 

 a'". Throat tawny, with hair-like black 

 shaft-lines ; sides of face grey ; under 

 wing-coverts and abdomen white . . JlavicollU, p. 576. 

 h' ' . Thi'oat yellow streaked with black; 

 flanks uniformly greenish. 

 «\ Entire head chestnut ; wings also 



deep chestnut. 

 i*. Lores and feathers over the eye yel- 

 low ; cheeks also yellow gidaris, p. 676. 



c*. Fore part of crown rufous, the hinder 

 part inclinmg to the same colour as 

 the back. 

 a'. Wings externally deep rufous ; 

 cheeks and a faint eyebrow white ; 

 lores and sides of face and ear- 

 coverts ashy grey woodi, p. 577. 



i*. Wings externally pale rufous ; 

 lores, ear-coverts, eyebrow, and 



sides of face yellow rubricapilla, p. 578. 



c'". Throat yellowish white; flanks ob- 

 scurely streaked with dusky ; frontal 

 plumes and sides of face greyish .... javanica, p. 579. 

 b" . Abdomen streaked with black like the 

 breast and throat, the latter pure white ; 

 forehead, lores, and sides of face dark 



grey bornensis, p. 580. 



b'. Under surface of body dark slaty grey. 

 c" . Above rufous-brown, the head like the 

 back ; throat and breast light slaty gi'ey ; 

 the flanks pale fidvous-brown erythroptera, p. 580, 



