9. LALAGE. 97 ■ 



/. 2 ad. sk. Labuau ( //. Luw). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



ff. cJ ad. sk. Labuan. Hugh Low, Esq. [C.]. 



h 



h. (J ad., i. cJ jun.sk. Labuan. Governor Ussher [0.1. 



k. Juv. sk. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



/. c? inim. sk. Dumalon, Mindanao. Prof. J. B. Steere [C.l. 



w. c? ad. sk. Oebu, April 1877. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C. 



fi. 2 ad. sk. Monte Alban, Luzon, Alfred Everett, Esq. [C. 



Feb. 1877. 



o. 5 ad. sk. SanMateo,Luzon,Feb. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



1877 (A. Everett), 



p. (S ad. St. Luzon. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



7. Lalage pacifica. 



Pacific T!n-ush, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 38; id. Gen. Hist. v. p. 117. 



Tardus pacificus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 813 (ex Lath.). 



Colluricincla maculosa. Peak, U. S. Expl. Rip. 1848, p. 81, pi. 23. 



fig. 1. 

 Lalage terat (nee Bodd.), Cass. U. S. E.cpl. Kip. p. 143; Fmsch ^ 



Haiti. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 540; iid. Faun. Centralpolyn. p. 80: 



Whitmee, Ibis, 1875, p. 440; Layurd, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 433, 1876, 



pp. 494, 502 ; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 144. 

 Oampephaga pacifica. Gray, Cat. B. Trap. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 23 ; 

 • id. Hand-!. B. i. p. 3-39. 

 Campephaga maculosa. Gray, t. c. p. 23 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 339. 

 Lalage pacifica, Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 169. 

 Lalage maculosa, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 724, 735, 773. 



AdaU male. General colour above greenish black, the sides of the 

 nock white, so as to form almost a collar round the hind neck ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts grey, with huffy white margins to the feathers, 

 the upper tail-coverts having a subterminal shade of black ; scapulars 

 and least wing-coverts black like the back, the median series white, 

 the outermost with black mesial patches ; greater series black with 

 ■white tips, the inner ones broadly white externally, forming with 

 the median coverts a white wing-patch; primary-coverts entirely 

 black ; quills black, the primaries narrowly edged with white, the 

 secondaries more broadly ; tail-feathers black, narrowly tipped with 

 white, becoming broader towards the outer feathers, the two outer- 

 most having a large white apical spot ; lores white, continued into 

 a broad superciliary streak, succeeded by a second line of greenish 

 black drawn from the base of the bill through the eye and including 

 the upper edge of the car-coverts ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and entire 

 under surface, including the under wing-coverts and the base of the 

 inner web of the quills, white ; thighs white, with black bases ; " upper 

 mandible bluish black, lower pale yellow with dark tip ; legs bluish ; 

 iris dark brown " (A'. A. Layard) ; " iris black '" (Brenchley). 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-7, tail 2-7, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Browner than the male, the head only greenish 

 black and contrasting with the back, the feathers of the upper 

 snrface being edged with lighter brown ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ashy, the feathers edged with huffy white, with a subterminal 

 bar of black, imparting a barred appearance to this part ; tail brown, 



