106 Mr. J. Whitehead on Birds 



peculiar hissing note, written best " pust.'" In Luzon we 

 met with it up to 8000 feet, and in Mindoro at 4500 feet. 

 Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet bluish white. 



61. MusciCAPULA NiGiioRUM Whitehead. 

 Muscicajmla luzoniensis Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 540. 



This species is closely allied to M. luzoniensis, but the 

 female is greyish blue on the back instead of brown. The 

 male is also generally richer in colour, both on breast and 

 back. We met with this Flycatcher on Canloon volcano at 

 6000 feet, in Central Negros. In its habits it is precisely 

 similar to the preceding species, and it is as difficult to 

 obtain as are some of the most creeping Warblers. 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet bluish white. 



62. Hypothymis azurea (Bodd.). (Grant, Ibis, 1894, 

 pp. 408, 506 ; 1896, pp. Ill, 464, 540; 1897, p. 224.) 



A widely-distributed species, found throughout the archi- 

 pelago, frequenting old forest, often at considerable elevations, 

 being met with by us at over 4000 feet in Mindoro. 



63. Cyanomyias helen^ Steere. 



This seems to be a very rare bird. On our first visit to 

 Samar we secured one specimen, a female, which was de- 

 stroyed with the rest of the collection, and during three 

 months spent in Samar in the following year this species 

 was not again obtained. 



64. Rhipiduua nigritorquis Vigors. (Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 252.) 



This species is the only true member of the genus Rhipi- 

 dura found in the Philippines, the next three species difiering 

 in the form of the tail and iu being quite diflerent in their 

 mode of coloration. R. nigritorquis, like R. javanica, is 

 seldom met with far from the coast, and is generally a 

 frequenter of nippa, mangrove, and sago swamps, while the 

 other Philippine species frequent thick inland forests, often 

 up to high altitudes. jR. nigritorquis has been met with in 

 all the larger Philippine Islands, and extends its range into 

 Palawan, but in Borneo its place is taken by R. javanica, a 

 bird of similar habits. 



