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birds made by Mr. Whitehead in the Benguet district there 

 was a single example of this remarkable Water- Redstart, of 

 which Mr. Whitehead was unable to ascertain the sex with 

 certainty, although he believed the bird to have been a 

 female. Additional examples of both sexes having now been 

 obtained, it transpires that the type bird figured was a male 

 adult, the female differing to some extent in plumage. 



Adult female. Like the male adult, but the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts are grey washed with rufous, the tail- 

 feathers brownish black, and the belly and under tail-coverts 

 vary from dull rufous-chestnut to greyish brown washed with 

 chestnut. In the male all these parts are bright chestnut, 

 and the slate-blue o£ the remainder of the plumage is some- 

 what darker. Total length 5'6 inches, wing 2'9, tail 22, 

 tarsus 1'05, culmen 0'55. 



41. CiTTociNCLA LuzoNiENsis (Kittl.) ; Grant, Ibis, 189i, 

 p. 408 ; 1895, p. 254. 



The interest attaching to the examples of this species in 

 the present collection rests on the fact that the female of the 

 Philippine Shama was hitherto practically unknown, and the 

 specimens previously forwarded by Mr. Whitehead have 

 all been adult males. Up to the present time it was still 

 extremely doubtful what the female of this species was really 

 like, though, when Dr. Sharpe wrote vol. vii. of the ' Catalogue 

 of Birds in the British Museum,' he pointed out that Cossypha 

 pyrrhopygia, Hartl., from West Africa, was in reality the 

 female or young of Cittocincla hizoniensis. The females just 

 received from Lepanto prove the correctness of his conclusion, 

 although the bird which he described in his Catalogue as 

 " female or young " is no doubt an immature male. 



The adult female may be briefly described as follows : — 



Top of the head, mantle, and upper back olive- brown; 

 lores, sides of the head and neck, and the chest dull grey, 

 the chin and middle of throat being somewhat paler, almost 

 whitish; wings washed and edged on the outer web with 

 brown ; the rest of the plumage is very similar to that of the 

 male. Total length 7 2 inches, Aving 3"0, tail 3'2, tarsus 1*05. 



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