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having the necessary material from India for comparison, but there is 

 most certainly no reason for thinking that the subject of Daubenton's 

 plate did not come from the Philippines because it has a white belly. 

 We therefore retain his title for the Philippine bird. It is one of the 

 commonest birds in the islands. 



"Ten males average: Length, 15G; wing, 69; tail, 71; cuimen, 15; 

 tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 14. Five females, length, 147; wing, 

 67; tail, 67; cuimen, 14; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 14. Bill 

 blue in male, but often black in female ; legs and feet bluish, nails 

 black." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



A nest of the black-naped fi3Tatcher, containing three eggs, was found 

 in Mindoro in April, it was composed of green moss and soft bits of dry 

 bamboo leaves, and lined with fine blackish fibers. The outside was 

 decorated with cotton-like substance from one of the fulgorid insects. 

 Tlie eggs were white, marked with dots of reddish brown. 



A nest and two eggs found by Whitehead near Cape Engano, Luzon, 

 on May 24, 1895, are described as follows: 



"Shape rounded ovate. Ground-color pure white, thickly speckled, 

 especially round the larger end, with small spots and dots of brown- 

 lake and with a few pale lilac under-markiugs. In general character 

 these eggs resemble those of the tits {ParidrB). ]\Ieasurements 17 

 mm. by 14 mm. 



"Nest cup-shaped, generally placed in a foiked branch among the 

 lower growth in old forests. The structure is made of moss firmly 

 bound together with white spider's-web and lined with fine brown fibers." 

 (Grant and Whitehead.) 



The black-naped flycatcher is one of the commonest of Philippine 

 birds and is found wherever there are thickets or forest. It is more or 

 less solitary in habits. 



Genus OAMIGUINIA McGregor, 1907. 



Bill moderately flattened as in Cyanomyias; cuimen less than tarsus 

 and equal to middle toe with claw; rictal bristles longer than bill from 

 nostril; first primary little more than one-half of second, the latter 

 much less than third; fifth longest and slightly longer than fourth and 

 sixth; tail about equal to wing and slightly graduated; feathers of chin, 

 lores, and foreliead ?liort, soft, and pile-like; feathers of crown more or 

 less scale-like; occipital crest soft and full. 



This genus is intermediate between Cyanomyias and Hypothymis; 

 from the former it differs in lacking the greatly lengthened crest and 

 the antrorse loral plimies, and fioiu the latter it differs in having the 

 feathers of crown and crest scale-like, instead of soft and velvety. 



