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externally blue, the secondaries tipped with buff like the coverts; under- 

 neath orange-rufous, mottled with dusky margins to the feathers; abdo- 

 men whitish." (Sharpe.) 



"The existence of this species in Palawan rests upon a single skin 

 collected at Puerto Princesa, which is indistinguishable from the male of 

 S. banyumas as represented by a considerable series in the British 

 Museum." (Everett.) 



In the Hand-List Sharpe restricts the distribution of the J avan cyornis 

 to Java, although in the Catalogue of Birds he places in the synon3Tny 

 of Siphia hanyumas, the male collected in Palawan by Everett. Mearns 

 has recently described, under the name of Cyornis mindorensis, two speci- 

 mens which certainly seem to ])e distinct from C. philippinensis, but they 

 agree with the description of"(7. banyumas and with the plate of that 

 species in the Birds of Celebes. Mearns does not compare his species 

 with C. banyumas, and he could not have done so, as there were no 

 authentic specimens of C. banyumas at hand when he wrote his de- 

 scription. Unfortunately such specimens are still lacking. A male 

 from Mariveles, Luzon and a female from Ticao Island differ from 

 ordinary C. philippinensis in having the crissum orange-buff, but the color 

 is not so deep as in the specimens from Mindoro. Cyornis mindorensis 

 may eventually prove to be a distinct species, but for the present I shall 

 consider it to be the same as C. banijumas. 



400. CYORNIS PHILIPPINENSIS Sharpe. 

 PHILIPPINE CYOENIS. 



Cyornis philippinensis Shaepe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 

 325; Hand-List (1901), 3, 216; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 72. 



Siphia philippinensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 450; White- 

 head, Ibis (1899), 111 (habits). 



Ca-man-ti-gon, Siquijor. 



Bantayan (McGregor) ; Banton (Gelestino) ; Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Bongao (Everett) ; Cebu (Meyer, 

 Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ;" Dinagat (Everett) ; Gui- 

 maras (Bourns d Worcester) ; Leyte (Everett) ; Luzon (Jagor, Mollendorff, 

 Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque 

 (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Everett, 

 Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns d Worcester) ; Negros 

 (Everett, Keay) ; Panay (Steere) ; Romblon (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; 

 Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester); Semirara (Worcester); Sibutu 

 (Everett) ; Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Siquijor (Bourns d Wor- 

 cester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns d Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns d 

 Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor) . 



