26 Mr. A. 11. Everett on the 



rugiuoiis browUj except on the two central qnills, wliicli are 

 ■wholly ferruginous brown_, and all showing in certain lights 

 close obsolete transverse bars ; under surface of the quills 

 hair-brown ; primaries dark brown, and all except the first 

 and second margined basally on the outer webs by a thin 

 line of ferruginous brown ; the secondaries and tertials also 

 dark brown, but increasingly margined bright ferruginous 

 brown until the entire outer webs are of the latter colour ; 

 under-wiiig-coverts, axillaries, and edges of wings white, 

 tinged with buff; major wing-coverts dark brown, with bright 

 ferruginous-brown outer webs ; the other coverts broadly 

 tipped with bright ferruginous brown ; a conspicuous line 

 from the nares over the eye and reaching nearly to the 

 posterior angle of the orbit, and a line fringing the lower 

 margin of the orbit, pure white (tinged with buff in some 

 examples) ; lores black; ear-coverts dark grey, Avashed with 

 olive; cheeks the same, but rather darker grey; sides and 

 flanks olive-grey, washed with buff; chin white; throat pale 

 buff, passing into deep orange-buff on the breast, on the sides 

 of which some of the plumes show obsolete dusky margins ; 

 abdomen and lower tail-coverts white; thigh-plumes dark 

 grey, edged with white. Length 5'80 inches, culmen 0*68, 

 wing 2"90, tail 2*35, tarsus 0*68. 



In auother female from Balabac the dimensions are rather 

 less, but in my original Puerto-Princesa specimen they 

 agi'ee very closely. This species is marked by its large bill. 

 The culmen in the type-skin of the male, measured from 

 its insertion in the skull, is 0'70 inch, and it is the same 

 in a female collected by Mr, Whitehead at Taguso in 

 Palawan. 



Dr. Sharpe was evidently in error in regarding S. lemprieri 

 as a Palawan representative of S. philippinensis, for both 

 sexes of the latter are blue. ]\Toreover, S. philippinensis is 

 a representative form of S. banyumas, which itself occurs in 

 Palawan, a male bird having been obtained by me at Puerto 

 Princesa in 1878, and a second male having been procured 

 by Mr. Whitehead on July 21, 1887, at Taguso. S. lemprieri 

 rather appears to be a representative of *S. magnirosfris 



