350 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



toe with claw, 31. Bill and legs brown; nails black; the stomach con- 

 tained several beetles and a large mantis. 



The species appears to be a migrant from Asia and although not un- 

 common in Calayan we secured but one specimen. The male is distin- 

 guished from the other Philippine species by having a subterminal white 

 tail-band; the female is distinguished from the females of C. manillensis 

 and C. macrurus by the lack of a large white tail-spot and from C. 

 griseatus by the much darker plumage and larger size. 



Suborder MICROPODII. 



Bill small and weak, the gape deeply cleft; rictal bristles not obvious; 

 legs and toes small and weak; middle toe-nail not pectinate; tarsus very 

 short; tail short to moderately long, either square or forked, and not 

 reaching the tips of the folded wings. Diurnal in habits; eggs pure 

 white, two in number; nest composed of sticks and moss, or else wholly 

 or in part of a salivary secretion. 



Families. 



a^. Culmen equal to tarsus or greater ; tufts of elongated feathers above and below 



eye Hemiprocniidae (p. 350) 



a". Culmen decidedly less than tarsus; no elongated feathers anywhere on head. 



Micropodidae (p. 351) 

 Family HEMIPROCNIIDAE. 



Swift-like; wings long and pointed, tail deeply forked; feet stout; 

 tarsus shorter than middle toe without claw; colors largely blue and 

 brown with a slight metallic gloss; plumage of the sexes dissimilar; at 

 once distinguished from any nearly related family by the elongated white 

 feathers above and below eye. Habits more flycatcher-like than swift-like. 



Genus HEMIPROCIs^E Xitzsch, 1829.* 

 Characters same as those given for the Family. 



311. HEMIPROCNE MAJOR (Hartert). 



PHILIPPINE WHISKERED SWIFT. 



Macropteryx comata Habteet, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 16, 517 (part). 



Macropieryx major Haetert, Novit. Zool. (1897), 4, 11 ; Shaepe, Hand-List 



(1900), 2, 89; McGeegoe and Woecester, Hand-List (1906), 58. 



Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns 

 & Worcester) ; Guimaras {Steere Exp.); Luzon {Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & 

 Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque {Steere Exp.) ; Masbate {Bourns 

 & Worcester) ; Mindanao {Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Good- 

 fellow) ; Mindoro {Steere Exp., Schmacker, McGregor, Porter); Negros {Steere, 



Cf. Oberholser, Proc. Biol. 8oc. Washington (1906), 19, 68. 



