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male birds average 190 in length; wing, 87; tail, 110; culmen, 17; 

 tarsus, 21 ; middle toe with claw, 18. Four females, length, 190 ; wing, 

 81 ; tail, 99 ; culmen, 17 ; tarsus, 20 ; middle toe with claw, 18. Bill, 

 legs, feet, and nails black." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Two eggs collected by Steere in Mainnduque, May 8, 1888, are de- 

 scribed as follows : 



"Shape ovate. Ground-color pale creamy white, with a rather wide 

 zone round the middle composed of small blotches and spots of pale 

 yellowish brown or lavender-gray; a few scattered spots of the same 

 colors over the rest of the shell. Measurements 18 mm. by 14 mm." 

 (Grant and Whitehead.) 



A set of three eggs, also collected in Marinduque by Steere, are said 

 to be similar to the above but with the markings rather smaller. The 

 measurements are 19 by 15. 



"The two nests are of the usual cup-shaped type, constructed of tightly 

 woven fiber and wide dead grass bound together with spiders' webs, and 

 neatly lined with fine grasses and black fiber." (Grant and Whitehead.) 



Genus XEOCEPHUS Bonaparte, 1854. 



Eye, surrounded by a wide fleshy wattle ; depth of bill at nostril about 

 two-thirds of its width; rictal bristles strong; first primary more than 

 one-half of second and less than one-half of third; fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth subequal; tarsus equal to exposed culmen; rectrices strongly 

 graduated; color nearly imiform, bright reddish 1)rown, or blue. 



Species: 

 a^. Plumage bright chestnut-rufous. 



¥. Central rectrices greatly lengthened (northern islands) rufus (p. 461) 



6*. Central rectrices never greatly lengthened ( southern islands ) . 



cinnamomeus ( p. 463 ) 

 a'. Plumage nearly uniform blue cyanescens (p. 463) 



424. XEOCEPHUS RUFUS (Gray). 



LONG-TAILED RUFOUS FLYCATCHER. 



Tchitrea rufa Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ( 1843 ) , 1 1 , 371. 

 Zeocephus rufus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 343; Hand-Liat 

 (1901), 3, 262; GRANT, Ibis (1896), 112; Grant and Whiteukad, 

 Ibis (1898), 235, pi. 5, fig. 4 (egg); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), IOC 

 (habits) ; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 279; McGregor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 74. 

 Mus-ca-d6r ca-n4-lo, Manila. 



Cebu {Bourns c€ Worcester, McGregor) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon {Cuming, 

 Heriot, M Ollendorff, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; 

 Marinduque {Steere Exp.) ; Mindoro {Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGre- 

 gor) ; Ncgros {Steere Exp., Bourns tC Worcester) ; Panay {Steere Exp., Bourns 

 d- Worcester) ; Romblon {Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Saniar {Whitehead) ; 

 Sibuyan {Bourns d Worcester, McGregor); Tablas (Bourns d Worcester, Ce- 

 lestino ) . 



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