from the vicinity of Manilla. 159 



the type of which is only a small specimen of H. sparverioides ; 

 nor is it H. strenuus, Gld.^ said to have come from the Phi- 

 lippine Islands^ which was described from a much distended 

 skin of the same species. 



On a closer examination of a good series of H.fagax, it 

 is evident that many of the specimens are those of quite 

 mature birds. It follows therefore that we have in H. fugax 

 a species which in maturity retains a plumage which in most 

 other Cuckoos would denote immaturity. The same remarks 

 apply to the H. nanus, Hume, a pretty little Cuckoo from 

 Tenasserim — in fact^ a miniature oi H. fugax (wing 5*5 to 6 

 inches) . In Cuculus sonnerati, Lath.^ and C pravatus, Horsf., 

 we find two species which never get beyond what is known 

 as the hepatic phase of plumage in Cuckoos. H. fugax and 

 H. nanus resemble H. sparverioides and H. bocki in having the 

 upper surface brown^ but in the striations of the breast they 

 are more like the young of H. hyperythrus. 



The Cuckoos of this subgenus may be arranged as shown 

 in the table on page 158. 



11. Cyornis herioti, sp. nov. 



Cyornis banyumas (Horsf.), apud Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 615, 5 (p. 610). 



The female of the two birds sent from Palawan by Mr. A. 

 H. Everett was attributed to C. elegans by Mr. Sharpe, Cat. 



B. iv. p. 447. 



Lord Tweeddale Avas in error, I think, in referring it to 



C. banyumas, inasmuch as this specimen is a brown bird of 

 the C. rubeculoides group, whilst C. banyumas belongs to the 

 C. tickeUicB group, in which the female is blue, like the male. 



The bird now sent by Mr. ]Maitland-Heriot is a female, 

 which most resembles C. elegans, but differs in having the 

 throat and breast pale olive-brown instead of bright rufous. 

 I propose to name it C. herioti, after the sender. 



12. loLE PHILIPPINEN'SIS (18:2). 



It is worthy of note that the birds from Negros and Gui- 

 maras are much larger (wing 4-35 inches) than those from 

 Luzon, Zebu, and N. ^Mindanao (Aving 3"7 to 4 inches). 



