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black; legs bright carmine" (Everett). Length 9*4 inches, winj 

 4'95, tail 3-9, bill 065, tarsus 0"85. 



Hull. Negros, Cebu, Guimaras, and Panay. 



a. <S ad. sk. 

 l>. 2 ad. sk. 

 e > d- d 2 ad. sk. 



Guimaras, March (A. B. Meyer). 

 Negros, March (L. Layard). 

 Cebu, April {A. II. Everett). 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 





5. Phabotreron brevirostris. 



Phaps leucotis, part., G. Ii. Or. List B. Brit. Mus. Columb;e, p. til, 

 specim. c (1856). 



Phabotreron brevirostris, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 549 (Pasananca), 

 832 (N.E. Mindanao), 1878, pp. 118 (Dinagat), 344 (Leyte), 

 952 (S.W. Mindanao); id. Om. Works, pp. 401, 473, 558, 572, 

 599, 043, 650 (1881); Wardlaw Rams. ibid. pp. 659, 669 (1881); 

 Tweedd. Voy. ' Challenger,' Birds, p. 22, pi. vi. (1881); Kutter, 

 J. f. O. 1883, p. 314 (Sibulan, Mindanao) ; Guillem. P. Z.S. 188-% 

 p. 269 (Sulu) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 41 (1889) (Placer) ; Steere, 

 Lid Philipp. Birds, p. i'4 (part.) (Mindanao, Samar, Leyte, Bojol) 

 (1890). 



Similar to P. leucotis, from which it differs iu having the fore- 

 head and throat greyish fulvous, the occiput constantly amethystine, 

 and the rectrices with a decided amethystine tinge; it resembles 

 also P. nigrorum, especially as regards the colouring of the fore- 

 head and throat, but it differs iu having the subocular streak white 

 and the occiput more amethystine. Total length about 9 - 5 inches, 

 wing 4-9, tail 3"9, bill - 53, tarsus 0*75. 



I have seen in the Rothschild Collection the specimen from the 

 Sulu Islands collected by Dr. Guillemard. Strange to say, it cannot 

 be separated from true P. brevirostris, the only differences being that 

 the hind part of the cheeks is more amethystine in the Sulu bird, the 

 rufescent tinge on the forehead is more restricted, and the dimen- 

 sions are somewhat smaller, wing 4-6. 



flu/'. S. Philippine Islands — Mindanao, Dinagat, Bohol, Leyte, 

 Samar, and also Sulu Islands. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Dinagat Is., June (A. II. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett). 

 I). $ ad. sk. Surigao, May (A. II. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett). 



<;d. cf ? ad. sk. Butuan, May (.1. II. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett ). 



e. $ ad. sk. Zamboanga, March (A. Tweeddale Coll. 



//. Everett). 



f. Ad. sk. Zamboanga, April (.1. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



//. Everett). 



g. cJad.sk, Pasananca, Zamboanga. ' Challenger "Exp. (^Type 



.if the species.) 

 It. Ad. sk. No locality. Sir E. Belcher [P.J. 



