26. MACRONTJS. 583 



in the male. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-65, -wing 2-7, tail 

 2-2, tarsus 0-75. (Mus. JR. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



Hub. The islands of Basilan, Panaon, Dinagat, and Lej-te in the 

 Philippine archipelago. 



26. MACRONUS. 



Type. 

 Macronus, Jard. c^- Selby, III. Orn. text to pi. 150 (1835) . M. ptHosus. 



Banc/e. Malayan peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, as well as the 

 island of Palawan, Philippine archipelago. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head ferruginous ptilosus, p. 583. 



h. Head black, streaked with white strmticeps, p. 584. 



1. Macronus ptilosus. 



Macronus ptilosus, Jard. &,• Selh/, III. Orn. pi. 150 (1835) ; Blyth, 

 J. A. S. Bene/, xi. p. 795 (1842) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 210 (1846) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 149 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 218 

 (1850) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 275 ; Sorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. 

 E.I Co. Mus. i. p. 225, App. p. 420 (1854) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, 

 p. 215 ; Pek. Pels. Novara, Vog. pp. 69, 161 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. 

 J9. i. p. 317, no. 4747 (1869); Wald. Ibis, 1872, p. 375; Salvad. 

 Ucc. Born. p. 216 (1874); Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 40, 1877, p. 10; 

 Ttceedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 308 ; Salvad. Ann. 3Ius. Civic. Genov. xiv. 

 p. 224 (1879); Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 258; Hume, St r. F. 1879, 

 p. 61, 1880, p. Ill ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 797. 



Timaha trichorrhos, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 594. fig. 1 (1836) ; S. Midi. 

 Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 396 (1839-1844) ; Loiu, 

 Sarawak, p. 410 (1848). 



Macronyx ! ptUosus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 340 (lapsic calami). 



Adult male. General colour above fulvous-brown, the dorsal 

 plumes blackish, long, and hairy in structure, with conspicuous white 

 shafts ; upper tail-coverts reddish brown ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series dark brown, 

 margined with the same colour as the back ; quills deep brown, the 

 secondaries externally margined with dull fulvous-brown ; crown of 

 head and nape bright chestnut ; lores, eyelid, feathers below the eye, 

 fore part of cheeks, and throat black ; ear-coverts, hinder part of 

 cheeks, sides of neck, and fore neck in front fulvous-brown, somewhat 

 lighter on the fore neck and forming a partially pronounced collar, 

 the ear-coverts and sides of neck faintly washed with rufous ; behind 

 the cheeks a half-concealed spot of white ; remainder of under sur- 

 face of body fulvous-brown, the flank-feathers elongated and with 

 white shafts ; centre of body ashy ; axillaries and under wing-coverta 

 like the breast, the lower series of the latter dusky brown ; quiUs 

 dusky brown below, paler along the edge of the inner web ; " bill 

 black ; preorbital naked skin blue ; legs brown ; iris crimson " (A, 

 Everett) ; " iris red-brown " {Wardlaiv Ramsay). Total length 5'8 

 inches, culmen 0*75, wing 2-65, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-85, 



