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I lia\e not seen a specimen of this fiyeatc-lier and no good description 

 of it is available.* The abo\e description is compiled from that of C. 

 montis. By an oversight C. montis has been credited to Palawan by 

 Sharpe and by McGregor and Worcester; as the only specimen of fly- 

 catcher warbler from Palawan is the type of C. xanihopygia, the former 

 species must he stricken from the list of Philippine birds. 



Genus EUMYIAS Cabanis, 1850. 



Bill broad and depressed ; width at nostril nearly twice the depth ; rictal 

 bristles moderate ; the wing exceeds the tail by less than length of tarsus ; 

 first primary more than one-half of second and less than one-half of third ; 

 fourth and fifth nearly equal and longest; tarsus twice the bill from 

 nostril. This genus is similar to Cyornis, but in Eumij'ias the sexes are 

 alike in colors and nearly the entire plumage is verditer-lilue. 



impedes. 



a'. Forehead and chin verditer-blue to base of bill. 



6'. Feathers of lores with black bases, the tips blue; wing longer. 



panayensis (p. 477) 



b-. Feathers of lores entirely black; wing shorter nigriloris (p. 478) 



a\ Forehead and chin black nigrimentalis (p. 478) 



442. EUMYIAS PANAYENSIS Sharpe. 

 PANAY VERDITER FLYCATCHER. 



Eiimyias patiayensis Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 

 326; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76. 



Stoparola panayensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 440; Hand- 

 List (1901), 3, 286; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 110 (habits). 

 Negros [Steere Exp., Whitehead); Panay {Steere). 



"Adult (type of species). — General color above dull verditer-blue, 

 rather brighter on the forehead and over the eye, forming an indistinct 

 eyebrow; least wing-coverts resembling the back, the greater series and 

 the quills blackish brown, externally edged with dull verditer-blue; tail 

 feathers blackish, also edged with verditer on the outer web ; sides of face 

 dull verditer, as also the whole of the throat and breast, shading off into 

 white on the abdomen and flanks, the latter washed with blue; fore part 

 of cheeks and throat slightly varied with silver}^ tips to the featliers ; 

 thighs and under wing- and tail-coverts buffy white. Bill black; feet dark 

 brown. Length, 15'3; culmen, 14; wing. To; tail, 63; tarsus, 18.'' 

 (Sharpe.) 



"The Panay verditer flycatcher seems to be a mountain form. A single 

 specimen was collected by the Steere Expedition on an expedition into 

 the mountains back of Sibulan, Negros." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



•Whitehead's diagnosis is as follows: "Similis C montis sed rostro crassiore 

 et uropygio sulphureo destinguenda." 

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