Birds of Baldhac and Palawan. 25 



21. IIypothy.mis occipitalis (Vig.). 



25. SiPHiA LEMPKJEHi, Sliarpc. 



Ci/07'nis bauyumas (Horsf.); Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 615 [partim) ; Wardlaw-Ranisay, Ornitli. Works Lord 

 Tweedd., Appendix, p. 65G {partim). 



Sipliia eler/ans (Teiimi.) ; Sliarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. 

 p. 447(?). 



Siphia leniprieri, Sliarpe, Ibis^ 1884, p. 319; id. ibid. 

 1888, p. 199 [partim) ; Everett, Journ. Straits Br. R. As. Soc. 

 (1889) XX. p. 183; Whitehead, Ibis, 1890, p. 48 {partim). 



Cyornis heriuti, Wardlaw-Ramsay, Ibis, 188G, p. 159 

 (partim) . 



Siphia ramsayi, W. Blasius, Ibis, 1888, p. 373 ; id. Oriiis, 

 1888, p. 303. 



The type oi Siphia lemprieri, Sharpe, was a male bird in adult 

 plumage collected by Mr. Lempriere's hunter at Marasi Bay, 

 in Palawan. The female had already been procured by 

 myself as early as 1878 at Puerto Princcsa, but it was over- 

 looked owing to Lord Tweeddale having catalogued the 

 specimen as Cyornis banyumas, ? . Subsequently Dr. Sharpe 

 catalogued my bird as Siphia elegans, ? , and in 1886 Major 

 Wardlaw-Ramsay identified it with his new Cyornis herioti 

 from Luzon, wliile in 1888 Dr. Blasius re-described S. lem- 

 prieri and gave it the title of S. ramsayi. Finally, in 1889 I 

 pointed out, in my ' List of the Birds of the Bornean Group,^ 

 that the bird obtained by me at Puerto Princesa was un- 

 doubtedly the hen of S. lemprieri, a conclusion which is now 

 confirmed by a series of both sexes recently collected in 

 Balabac and S.W. Palawan. 



As the female of this species does not appear to have been 

 described, I append the following note of an adult specimen 

 shot in Balabac on Dec. 26, 1893 : — Forehead, crown, and 

 occiput dark plumbeous grey, washed with olive^ each 

 feather with narrow obsolete transverse bars, which are 

 most pronounced on the forehead ; sides of neck, mantle, 

 scapulars, and back warm olivaceous brown, deepening 

 posteriorly into bright ferruginous brown on the upper tail- 

 coverts ; rcctriccs dark sepia brown, the exterior webs fer- 



