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Male. — General color grayish cobalt or smalt-blue; chin, lores, a small 

 spot at base of lower mandible, and a narrow fiontal line velvety black; 

 primaries and secondaries black, edged with blue; rectrices black below 

 and their shafts black. "Eye black; bill and legs cobalt-blue; inside of 

 mouth bright green." (Whitehead.) Length, about 315; wing, 93; tail, 

 100; culmen from base, 23; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 17. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but abdomen and crissum whitish. 

 Wing, 93 ; tail, 95 ; culmen from base, 22 ; bill from nostril, 14 ; tarsus, 16. 



Young.- — Similar to the adult, but lores and forehead blue; back buffy 

 brown; remiges and rectrices largely huffy brown; under tail-coverts white 

 washed with buff. 



"Quite common both in Palawan and the Calamianes. A forest form. 

 Four males average: Length, 220; wing, 96; tail, 100; culmen, 25; tar- 

 sus, 16 ; middle toe with claw, 18. Five females, length, 200 ; wing, 89 ; 

 tail, 89; culmen, 23; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 17. Iris black; 

 legs and feet blue; nails black; bill blue, deepest at base, tip sometimes 

 bla-ck; eye-wattles blue." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus CALLAEOPS Grant, 1895. 



"A new genus of Muscicapidce most nearly allied to Arses, which it 

 resembles in having a disk-like wattle formed by the prolongation of the 

 eyelid, which entirely surrounds the rather large eye. As in Terpsiphone, 

 there is a large, full, occipital crest, and the tarsi and toes are short and 

 slender ; but the tail is like that of Rhipidura, wedge-shaped and composed 

 of twelve feathers, the outer pair being two-thirds of the length of the 

 middle pair. The first flight-feather is half the length of the second, 

 which is about equal to the tenth ; the fourth being slightly the longest." 

 {Grant.) 



427. CALLAEOPS PERIOPTHALMICA Grant. 



SHOET-TAILED PAEADISE FLYCATCHER. 



Callaeops periopthalmica Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 4, 18; Ibis 

 (1895), 253; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 108; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 

 3, 2G3; McGreqoe and Worcester, Hand-List (190G), 74. 

 Luzon ( Whitehead ) . 



"Adult male. — General color deep black with a slight purplish gloss, 

 especially on the back and breast; the middle of lower breast and belly 

 white, the under tail-coverts being edged with the same color. Wattle 

 surrounding the eye, bill, and feet said to be pale blue. Length, 216; 

 wing, 89; tail, 114; tarsus, 15. The only specimen sent home by Wliite- 

 head was not of his own collecting, but purchased in Manila and, as I 

 understand, said to have been obtained in that vicinity. The color of the 

 soft parts and sex are, I fancy, only given on the authority of the collector 

 from whom the bird was obtained." {Grant.) 



