17. PACHVCEPUALA. 221 



of the body white ; fore neck aud breast greyish ; wings dusky, mar- 

 gined with the colour of the back ; bill dusky ; feet grey. Total 

 length 5-2 inches, culmeu O-o, wing 2-85, tail 2-4, tarsus 6-85. 



Hah. Ajcr Mantcior, Sumatra (one male, collected by Beccari, 

 Aug. Gth). 



Ohs. Similar to //. (/rlsola (Temm.) from Java, but differing from 

 it in being smaller and in having the tail more reddish. {Salvadori.) 



42. Pachycephala philippinensis. 



Hyloterpe philippinensis, Walden, Ann. S,- May. N. H. 1872, vol. x. 

 p. 2o2; id. Tr. Z. S. 1877, viii. p. 179, pi. xxxi. fig. 2, ix. p. 250; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 109 ; Wardlaw Rammxj, in Tweeddale's Ornith. 

 Works, Append, pp. 656, 666 ; Gould, B. Asia, part 3.3. 



Adult male (Luzon, Jan. 1872). Head above greyish brown, with 

 a slight olive tinge ; the rest of the upper parts olive-green ; ear- 

 coverts and cheeks and the region round the eye slightly reddish 

 brown ; chin aud throat dingy white ; " an indistinct obscure zone 

 crossing the breast and bordering the upper breast-plumage, con- 

 sisting of feathers which are dark ashy at their base, then pure 

 white, tipped with dirty yellow : the remainder of the under 

 plumage, with the tlanks and under tail-coverts, sulphur-yellow, 

 each feather, however, being iron-grey at the base and then white " 

 ( Waldtn, I. c.) ; edge of wing yellow ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white, washed with yellow ; inner web of quills edged with 

 yellowish white. Two specimens, male and female, from Dinagat, 

 June, 1877: "iris dark brown; bill black; legs bluish grey." 

 Total length G inches, culmeu 0'65, wing 3-25, tail 2-8, tarsus 0-75. 



Hah. Islands of Luzon and Dinagat, Philippine archipelago. 



The description is taken from the type specimens in Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay's collection. 



43. Pachycephala sulfuriventer. 



Hyloterpe sulfiui venter, Walden, Ann. &,• Mag. N. H. 1872, ser. 4 

 ix. p. 399 ; id. Tr. Z. S. 1874, vol. viii. p. 117 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, 

 in Tweeddale^s Orn. Works, Ajjjyend. p. 666. 



Adult. All the upper parts olive-brown, darker on the head, but 

 more ferruginous on the tail and lower back ; quills dark brown, 

 their outer edges and the greater part of the wing-coverts being of 

 the same colour as the back; chin and throat dingy white, shading 

 off on the upper part of the breast into pale brown, which ao-ain 

 gradually changes into sulphur-yellow towards the centre of the 

 breast ; lower abdomen, under tail-coverts, and thighs bright sul- 

 phur-yellow ; edge of wing yellowish ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white with a yellow tinge ; bill and legs black in the skin. 

 Total length 6 inches, culmeu 0"6, wing ;3-25, tail 2-o, tarsus 0-75, 



Hah. This well-marked species seems to be restricted to Celebes. 



