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into obscure streaks. The edges to the wing-coverts and quills are 

 often rufescent, and this is probably a sign of immaturity." (Sharpe.) 

 "Included in this list with a good deal of doubt. Sharpe includes 

 the Philippines in the range of this species, but whether he had any other 

 authority for so doing than the Marquis of Tweeddale's identification of 

 a single immature bird from Negros we do not know. We can find no 

 other record of its occurrence in the Philippines, and are inclined to 

 doubt its ever occurring there at all." (Bourns mid Wor-cester MS.) 



Genus CYOBIS^IS BIyth, 1843. 



In Cyornis the sexes are slightly different in color; upper parts dark 

 blue or olivaceous; throat and breast some shade of orange-buff or 

 orange-chestnut, or else blue; abdomen light buff or white; bill moder- 

 ate in size, decidedly, but not conspicuously, flattened; bill from nostril 

 equal to one-half of tarsus and less than middle toe without claw; rictal 

 and nasal bristles moderate; first primary equal to one-half of second; 

 second and third considerably shorter than fourth and fifth, the last 

 two equal and longest; the wing when folded reaching to middle of tail. 

 The young are conspicuously spotted. 



Species. 



a}. Throat and breast deep blue herioti (p. 436) 



or. Throat and breast orange-nifous or buff. 

 6*. Upper parts blue. 



&. Breast and throat darker and more uniform orange-rufous. 



d'. Abdomen and under tail-coverts pure Avliite philippinensis (p. 438) 



d-. Abdomen and under tail-coverts distinctly washed with chestnut-orange 



or buff banyumas (p. 437) 



<r. Breast lighter orange-rufous; throat much lighter than breast, nearly 



white (male) lemprieri (p. 439) 



V. Upper parts dull brown, more or less washed with an olivaceous tinge: tail 

 and its coverts more or less chestnut or ferriiginous brown. 

 &. Tail and its upper coverts bright chestniit; no white about eye. 



platenae (p. 441) 



<f. Tail and its upper coverts dull rusty brown; a white line above and below 



eye and extending forward on forehead (female) lemprieri (p. 439) 



398. CYORNIS HERIOTI Ramsay. 

 BLUE-BREASTED CYORNIS. 



Cyornis herioti Ramsat, Ibis (1886), 159 ($) ; Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Cm. 

 Club (1901), 11, 60; Hand-List (1901), 3, 215; McGregob and Wor- 

 cester, Hand-List (1906), 71. 



BipMa enganensis Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1896), 5, 2; Ibis (1896), 

 112; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 111. 



Luzon (Eeriot, Whitehead). 



"Adult male. — Like the male of S. pallidipes, but the sides and flanks 

 are fawn-colored instead of pure white. Length, 152 ; culmen, 18 ; wing, 

 79; tail, 63; tarsus, 22. 



