1S72.] IN THE ISLAJSTD OF NEGEOS. 119 



EcTRTSTOMUs OEIEN.TALIS (Linn.): S.N, i. p. 159, no. 4 (17G6), ew Brisson. 



Oalcjulus indicus, Briss. Oruith. ii. p. 75. no. 4, pi. 7. f. 2, " India orientalis." 



" cJ, ii'is brown ; bill and feet red. Shot in the forest, Island of Negros, March." 

 Agrees in every respect with examples from Menado and Malacca. 



Entomobia gularis (Kuhl): Sharpe, Mon. Alced. pi. 70, p. 165. Ibis, 1872, 



Three specimens collected, two males and one female, in full plumage. They do not differ 

 from Luzon examples in Lord Walden's collection, nor is any sexual distinction to be detected. 

 " ffi. d' 5 ii'is light brown, bill brick-red, feet coral ; stomach, worms ; shot in a ploughed field. 

 " i. c? ) stomach, small fish ; shot on river-bank. 

 " c. ? , iris light brown, bill brick-red, feet coral ; stomach contained large grubs." 



Sauropatis chloeis (Bodd.) : Sharpe, Mon. Alced. pi. 87, p. 229. 



Alcedo coUaris, Scopoli, Fl. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 90. no. 5G (1786), ex Sonnerat. 



" c? , iris brown ; feet dark brown ; bill black ; stomach, small crab, March, Island of Negros." 



Petrocosstphus solitarius (Miill.) : Suppl. p. 142. no. 46, ex PI. Enl. 636. 



" d , iris brown ; bill and feet almost black ; stomach, seeds ; frequents old buildings, rare. 

 Negros, March. 



Broderipus acrorhtnchus (Vigors) : P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 97, "Manilla:" Gray and Mitchell, 

 Genera, pi. 58. 



" ? , bill pink ; feet black ; stomach, seeds. Island of Negros." 



Mr. Gray (H.-l. no. 4305) has suppressed Vigors's title for the Philippine Oriole and adopted 

 cliinensis, Linn. In this rectification we are unable to concur : — first, because the Linnean type 

 was brought from Cochin China by Poivre and given to Reaumur (Brisson, Orn. ii. p. 328) ; 

 secondly, because Brisson, who described from Poivre's example, distinctly states (/. c), " alarum 

 remiges sunt nigne: ex minoribus tanien aliquot exigiid maculujlavicaute terminantiir." 



B. acrorhynchus and B. frontalis (Wall.) appear to be the only two known species in which 

 the yellow wing-spot is wanting. 



CoPSTCHUS MiNDANENSis (Gm.) : S. N. i. p. 823. no. 76, ex Montbeillard. -^^^ -jg^-g 



Le Merle de Mindanao, Month. Hist. Nat. iii. p. 387 ; PL Enl. 627. f. 1. P- ^'^^• 



" Iris brown ; bill and feet black ; stomach, insects. Island of Negros." 

 The single specimen sent has the under wing-coverts entirely black as in C. pluto (Temm.). 

 This at once distinguishes the Negros bird from the Dhyals of India, Ceylon, Burma, Malayan 

 peninsula, and Java. Unfortunately the Negros example possesses only eight perfect rectrices ; 

 but these are entirely black. The stump of a ninth, however, is present ; and it, as far as it 

 remains, is also black. It may be inferred, therefore, that at least ten of the rectrices of the 

 Negros Copsychus are black, and it may be possible that all the twelve are black. Without other 

 Philippine examples to compare with, it cannot be decided whether this Negros individual agrees 

 with the Mindanao species. But for the present it is proposed to regard the two as identical. 

 The Malayan and Javan Co])sychus hitherto referred to Turdus mindanensis, Gm., differs 



