324 MTJSCICAPID^. 



Hub. Islands of Luzon and Mindanao in the Philippine archi- 

 pelago. 



a. Ad. St. Mindanao. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [P.]. 



b. (S ad. sk. Monte Alban, Luzon, March li. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



1877 {A. Everett). 



28. RMpidura albiventris. 



Philentoma albiventiis, Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. new series, i. p. 325 ; 

 Tweeddak, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 284. 



Adult (type of species). Head and neck all round greyish blue, 

 with lighter- coloured streaks of more silvery blue to the feathers of 

 the forehead, throat, and fore neck ; rest of the back and scapulars 

 bright bay, some of the uppermost of the latter slightly washed with 

 greyish blue : wing-coverts dull greyish blue like the head, the 

 innermost of the greater series greyish on the inner web, bay on the 

 outer : primaries blackish externally, with a slight wash of grey, the 

 secondaries externally bright bay, the innermost having the entire 

 outer web of this colour ; two centre tail-feathers black, the two 

 next black on the inner web, bright bay on the outer, the rest of 

 the tail-feathers uniform bay ; entire belly white, the feathers 

 adjoining the chest more or less washed with blue-grey and distinctly 

 streaked with white down the shaft ; lower flanks slightly washed 

 with buif ; vent and under tail- coverts light bay ; thighs light bay, 

 with grey bases to the feathers. Total length 6'4 inches, culmen 

 0-65, wing 3-05, tail 3'45, tarsus 0"7. {CoU. J. B. Steere.) 



Hah. Islands of Guimaras and Negros in the Philippine archi- 

 pelago. 



29. Rhipidura phcenicura. 



Rhipidura phcenicura, MuU. S,- Schleg. Nutuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volk. 

 p. 18.5, note ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 259 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 323 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 330, no. 4962. 



Adult male. Head blackish, slightly shaded with grey ; back 

 brown, slightly rufescent towards the rump ; the latter as weU as 

 the upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut, paler at the tip of the tail- 

 feathers ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series and the 

 quills deep sepia-brown, the secondaries washed externally with 

 rufous, with which the greater coverts are also tipped ; over the eye 

 a streak of white feathers ; lores, sides of face, cheeks, and chin 

 black ; throat white, widening out on the hinder part of the cheeks ; 

 across the lower throat a blackish collar ; chest dull ashy ; centre of 

 body and under tail-coverts ferruginous, inclining to bay on the 

 latter ; sides of body washed with brown ; under wing-coverts 

 light ferruginous ; quills dusky brown below, light rufous along 

 the edge of the inner webs ; " bill black ; feet blackish ; iris brown " 



