480 MANUAL OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



a^ Throat and breast gray; belly and rest of under parts barred with black and 

 white. 

 6'. Lores and space in front of eye deep black; under tail-coverts white, barred 

 with black, the black bars extending right across the feathers and being 

 about two-thirds of the width of the white interspaces. 



panayensis (p. 483) 



b-. Lores and space in front of eye gray like the crown; under tail-coverts 



uniform white; or white with rather narrow wide-set black bars, which 



are generally confined to the middle of the feathers kochi (p. 4S2) 



FEMALES. 



a\ Entire upper and under parts uniform gray. 



¥. Smaller; wing, 157 mm.; tail, 119 mindorensis (p. 483) 



b^. Larger; wing, 170 mm.; tail, 142 guillemardi (p. 481) 



a-. Upper and under parts not entirely uniform. 



6*. Throat and breast imiform gray; belly and under parts barred with black 

 and white. 

 c'. Lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts barred with black. 



d*. Feathers of rump dark gray, barred with black and fringed with 

 whitish; general color of upper parts and breast darker gray; black 

 bars on the belly and flanks as wide as, or wider than, the white 

 interspaces, giving these parts a much blacker appearance; under 

 tail-coverts with wide bars of black and white, the former being 



rather wider striatus (p. 482) 



(/-. Feathers of rump white, barred with black; general color of upper parts 

 and breast paler gray; black bars on the belly and flanks much 

 narrower than the white interspaces, giving these parts a whiter 

 appearance; under tail-coverts white, with one or two narrow wide- 

 set black bars difficilis (p. 480) 



<r. Lower back, rump, and \ipper tail-coverts uniform gray like the back. 



cebuensls (p. 484) 

 5^ Entire under parts barred with black to the throat; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts barred with black. 

 c\ Lender tail-coverts widely barred with black and white, the black bars 

 being as wide as the white interspaces; patch of feathers covering the 

 nostrils gray like the rest of the crown; general color of the throat and 

 breast gray, barred with black, contrasting with the black and white 

 belly; black bars on the belly and under parts very wide, 



panayensis (p. 483) 



c'. Under tail-coverts either pure white, or white with some black bars; patch 



of feathers covering the nostrils whitish; general color of throat and 



breast white, barred with black like the rest of the under parts; black 



bars on the belly and under parts narrower kochi (p. 482) 



445. ARTAMIDES DIFFICILIS (TTartert). 



PALAWAN AETAMIDES. 



Aj-tamides sumatrensis Suarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 12 (part). 

 Oraucalus sumatrensis difficilis Habtert, Novit. Zool. (1895), 2, 470. 

 Artamides difficilis Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 287. 

 Artamides dificilis McGregor and Worcester. Hand-List (1906), 76 (error). 



