500 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. 



a}. Mantle and back blue. 



fe'. Chin and throat black. 



c\ Crown and nape cobalt ; mantle and back navy-blue.... cyanogastra (p. 500) 



(T. Crown, mantle, and back bright turquoise-blue (male). 



tweeddali ( p. 502 ). 



V. Chin and throat and nearly the entii'e plumage dull verditer-blue (female). 



tweeddali (p. 502) 



2 n/r ii ju 1 1 ^. ui 1 ( melanochlamys (p. 501) 



a'. Mantle and back velvety black ,, , 



|ell8e (p. 5001 



471. IRENA CYANOGASTRA Vigors. 

 LUZON FAIRY BLUEBIRD. 



Irena cyanogastra Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97; Shakpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus. (1877), 3, 266; Grant, Ibis (1896), 116; Whitehead, Ibis 

 (1899), 216 (habits). 



Irena cyanogaster Shakpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 308; McGregor and Wor- 

 cester, Hand-List (1906), 79. 

 Luzon (Meyer, Mollendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor, Celestitvo) . 



Male. — Forehead, lores, a wide band over eye, entire sides of head and 

 neck, chin, throat, and fore breast velvety black; rest of under parts 

 deep blue; tail-coverts tipped with cobalt and the black bases of feathers 

 showing through the blue to some extent ; crown and nape bright cobalt ; 

 mantle, back, and rump deep blue, the black bases showing through to 

 some extent as on the under parts ; upper tail-coverts tipped with cobalt ; 

 wings black; lesser coverts tipped with dark blue; median and greater 

 coverts with wide tips of cobalt, forming two bands; alula-feathers and 

 primary-coverts narrowly edged with dark blue ; inner secondaries broadly 

 edged with cobalt; rectrices black below; above, outermost pair all black, 

 the middle pair all blue, the others blue on outer webs. Bill, legs, and 

 nails black. Length, about 260; wing, 135; tail, 112; culmen from base, 

 30 ; bill from nostril, 21 ; tarsus, 21. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the black on head and 

 throat duller and extending for a less distance on the breast; blue of 

 under parts slightly lighter. Wing, 135; tail, 113; culmen from base, 

 27; bill from nostril, 19; tarsus, 18. 



472. IRENA ELL>E Steere. 



ELLA'S FAIRY BLUEBIRD. 



Irena ellce Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 18; Ibis 

 (1891), 313 (fig.), pi. 8; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 309; White- 

 head, Ibis (1899), 216 (habits) ; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 79. 

 Leyte {Steere Exp.) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead). 



