AND ALLIED GENERA. 71 



Key to the species. 



a. Back black or blackish brown, witb broad, ful- 

 vous shaft-streaks falcata. 



b. Back olive-brown, the feathers with narrow, ful- 

 vous shaft-streaks basilanica. 



c. Back fulvous, shaft-stripes indistinct mindanensis. 



1. Ptilocic/da falcata, 



Ptilocichla falcata Sharpe , Trans. Linn. Soc. , Zool. 2nd ser. I, p. 

 332 (1876); id. Cat, B. VII, p. 586 (1883); W. Bias. Ornis 

 1888, p. 314. 



H a b. Island of Palawan , Philippine Archipelago. 

 Two specimens, collected by Dr. Platen at Puerto Princesa. 



2. Ptilocichla basilanica. 



Ptilocichla basilanica Steere , List of Birds and Mammals , coll. by 

 the Steere Exped. to the Philippines; Ann Arbor, Mich. p. 18 

 (1890); id. Ibis 1891, p. 312, pi. VIL 



Hab. Island of Basilan, Philippine Archipelago. 



3. Ptilocichla mindanensis. 



Ptilocichla mindanensis Steere, op. cit. p. 18 (1890); id. Ibis 1891, 



p. 312. 

 Ptilopyga mindanensis Bias. J. f. 0. 1891, p. 146. 



Hab. Island of Mindanao, Philippine Archipelago. 



Genus PtHopyga. 



Type: Ptilopyga leucogrammica Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 586 (1883). 

 This genus was originally founded by Sharpe upon Ma- 

 lacocincla rujiventris Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 229, but as Sal- 

 vadori already suggested, M. rujiventris is a real 3Ialacocincla 

 and closely allied to 31. sepiaria. Together with M. ruji- 

 ventris, Sharpe placed in this genus as a second species 

 Cacopitta leucogrammica Bp., but as he never published a 



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