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ETuga specimens arc in every respect like those of Luzon in the Museum. 

 Males in immature plumage were found during our entire stay and 

 enable me to trace the plumage development with some certainty. In 

 young birds the plumage is much like that of the female, with the 

 upper parts grayer and lacking much of the olive green. 



The brilliant adult plumage is first indicated by a few scattered red 

 feathers on belly, metallic purple feathers in throat, black feathers of 

 back, and metallic green of rump. These areas do not develop with 

 any great regularity or in fixed sequence. In one specimen, with but 

 a touch of red on each side of forebreast and three or four green feathers 

 in rump, the purple along sides of chin and throat and black on side of 

 neck is developed far in advance of others, with the belly very extensively 

 green. The first new feathers, however, usually appear somewhere in 

 the large red patch of breast and the green of rump, then the throat, 

 black of back, and lastly top of head. The molt of wing can not be 

 followed with much satisfaction and seems to bear but a general relation 

 to molt of the body plumage, but there is usually considerable red in 

 the breast before any new wing feathers show. The coverts appear to 

 be first to change, followed by the inner secondaries, though in some 

 the inner primaries change earlier than the secondaries. The tail molt 

 is usually under way before that of the wing. One female has a single 

 bright red feather on side of breast. There is no doubt as to the sex 

 of (his specimen. The Calayan name for Cinnyris is "sa-uif sa-uit'." 



Dictum pygm^tjm (Kitt.). 



Fairly abundant on both Calayan and Fuga. 



ZOSTEROPS MEYENI Bp. 



Abundant on Calayan, going about in small parties in the brush or 

 at other times feeding in the high trees. There is some variation in 

 the extent of yellow on the breast, but this is largely due to season. A 

 skin from Benguet is very dingy, showing contact with smoke or burnt 

 timber, just as has been observed in many United States birds. Name 

 in Calayan, "ti-tit." 



ZOSTEROPS FLAVISSIMA, new species. 



Zosii-rops sp. inc., McGregor, Bull. Phil. Mus?., No. 3, p. 11. 

 Specific characters. — Similar to Z. (mreiloris Grant, but larger; upper 

 parts lighter, top of head and sides of head and neck yellower. 



Type. — No. 2110, male in freshly molted plumage. Philippine Mu- 

 seum Collection. Cagayancillo Island, Paragua Province, P. I. Col- 

 lected February 7, 1903, by P. C. McGregor and A. Celestino. Upper 

 parts bright olive green, perhaps slightly more yellow on crown and 

 neck, the upper parts exactly as in Z. meyeni in fresh plumage. Lower 

 parts rich golden yellow, of the same color as the chin and throat in 

 meyeni, slightly paler posteriorly; sides of head and neck like crown, 



