112 Mr. W. II. Ogilvie Grant on the 



islands. The specimen obtained by Mr. Whitehead is an 

 immature female, with the feathers of the upper parts mostly 

 fringed with whitish rufous. 



MuNiA FORMosANA, Swiuh. ; Sliarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xiii. p. 338 (1890). 



This Formosan species is now recorded for the first time 

 from the Philippine Group, an adult female having been 

 obtained at Isabella by Mr. Whitehead during his last 

 expedition. 



Alauda gulgula, Frankl. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xiii. p. 575 (1890). 



Mr. Whitehead's bird belongs to the darker race known 

 as A. wattersi. 



Pitta atricapilla, Less. ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xiv. p. 438 (1888) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1893, p. 498. 



Alcyone cyanipectus (La Fresnaye) and A. philippinensis 

 (Gould). 



When a vexed question has to all appearance been satis- 

 factorily settled, one is naturally loath to reopen it without 

 the strongest evidence of new facts, especially when 

 it necessitates an ornithological divorce. The evidence 

 before me is, however, so strong that only one course is 

 possible. To begin at the beginning of the story, Ceijx 

 cyanopectus was first described by La Fresnaye (Rev. Zool. 

 1840, p. 33) from a specimen without any record of the 

 locality whence it was obtained. About ten years later Eyton 

 received a second specimen of this bird from the Philippine 

 Islands and forwarded it to Jardine, who figured it as new 

 under the name Alcyone cincta (Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 82). 

 In 1868 Gould described Ceyx philippinensis (P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 404) from a small Kingfisher sent him from Manila, 

 This bird was evidently closely allied to C. cyanopectus, but 

 appeared to represent a distinct species distinguished by the 

 absence of the dark blue pectoral band. 



In 1884 Major Wardlaw Ramsay received a collection 

 of birds from Manila, which contained two specimens of 



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