18. CENTKOPUS. 339 



bars : bill and legs blackish brown. Total length :^1 inches, cul- 

 men 1-05, Aving !J-1, tail 12-4, tarsus 2-1. 

 Hah. Ke Islands. 



a. (S vix ad. sk. Iv6 Islands. Wallace Coll. 



(Type uf species.) 



10. Centropus mindorensis. 

 Centrococc3'x mindorensis, 'Steere, List Bird's Sf Mamm. Steere 



Edpvd. Philipp. p. 12 (1890). 

 Centropus mindorensis, ILiricrt, Kat. Voij. Mus. Senckenb., App. 



p. 253 (1801). 



Adult male. Similar in plumage to Gentropus benisteini, but differs 

 in having the bill scarcely more than half the size, the ciilmcn more 

 curved, with a groove following the line of the culmcn in front of the 

 nostril: " biU black, paler towards the tip ; legs black ; iris bright 

 dark red '' (J. B. Steere). Total length 17 inches, culmen l-lo, 

 wing G"2, tail O'?, tarsus I'o. 



The specimen has a few white feathers on the front of the chest, 

 probably due to albinism. 



Hah. Island of Mindoro, Philippines. 



a. d ad. sk. Calapan, Mindoro, E. L. Moseley, Esq. [C] 



May 28. 



11. Centropus nigricans. 



Polophilus sp., Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 813 (1875). 

 Polopbilus nigricans, Saliad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 17 (1870), 



xiii. p. 403 (1878) ; id. Orn. Papuuda, i, p. 390 (1880). 

 Centropus melanurus (nee Gould), Ram-^ay, Pr. Linn. 6'oe. N. S, 



IFrt^fs, i, p. 394 (187G). 

 Centropus nigricans, Skarpv, Journ. Linn. <S'of., Zool. xiv. p. 029 (1879). 

 Ceuti'opus spilopterus (nee Gray), Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. 



xiii. pp. 81, 310 (1877), 491 (1878) ; Ramsay, Pr, Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W. iii. p. 258 (1878), iv. p. 9G (1879) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1879, 



p. 321. 



Adult nude (Y id c Island). Differs from C. spilopterus \nh.a.x\\i^ 

 tlie mottling on the wing slightly more pronounced and browner, 

 and the upper tail-coverts and two centre tail-fealhers marked 

 with irregular brownish-buff bars. Total length 23"2 inches, culmen 

 1-45, wing y, tail 13'3, tarsus 2. Another, from Fort Moresby, 

 ditiers in having every feather of the wing marked with distinct 

 wavy pale bars, mostly butf on the coverts and outer webs of the 

 quills, and bright chestnut on the inner webs of the latter ; most of 

 the glossy shafts of the feathers of the mantle are buif, and the upper 

 tail-coverts and most of the tail-feathers are irregularly barred, the 

 latter having narrow white ends. Total length 20-5 inches, culmen 

 1-45, wing 8-2, tail 12-0, tarsus 1*9, A specimen from S.E. New 

 Guinea has the upper part of the head, back of the neck, and scapu- 

 lars rufous-brown partially mottled with black concentric bars, all 

 these feathers as well as those of the mantle, throat, and chest have 

 glossy buff shaft-stripes : the wings and tail are very similar to 



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