234 ON TWO XEW PlIlLirPlXE-ISLAND BIEDS. [1872. 



A. 51. X. n. On two new Species of Birds from the Philippine Islands. By Arthuti, Viscount Waldex, 

 "^p. 202.^ P.Z.S., F.R.S. [From the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural Histoiy,' ser. 4, vol. x., 



October 1872.] 



Htloterpe rniLiPPiXEXsis, n. sp. 



Feathers of tlic chin, cheeks, throat, and upper breast silky white, edged more or less with 

 cinereous, a dingy sordid aspect being thus given to these parts ; an indistinct obscure zone 

 crossing the breast and bordering the upper breast-plumage, consisting of feathers which are 

 dark ashy at their base, then pure white, tipped with dirty yellow ; the remainder of the under 

 plumage with the flanks and under tail-covcrts sulphur-yellow, each feather, however, being 

 iron-grey at the base and then white ; entire head dark smoke-brown, lighter on the ear-coverts ; 

 remainder of upper plumage olive-green, rather darker on the outer edges of the quills and on 

 the rectrices : under carpals and axillaries pale lemon-white ; tail slightly forked ; bill horn- 

 brown. 



Longitudo 



Roet. a nar. ALe. Cauda;. Tarsi. 



0-32 3-25 3-12 075 



From an example obtained in Luzon by Dr. B. Meyer and labelled a " male." 



ORTnOTOMUS CAST.\>"EICEPS, n. sp. 



Entire head, lores, streak under the eyes, and the ear-coverts chestnut ; nape and inter- 

 A. il. X. H. scapulary region dark ashy, with scarcely a tinge of olive-green ; feathers of the middle of back, 

 ^\ ''"3^ ui-opygium, and upper tail-coverts dark ashy at base, with yellowish olive-green tips; quills 

 brown, with bright yellowish-green outer edges ; rectrices above paler brown, edged near their 

 insertion and more or less throughout their length with the bright yellowish green of the quills ; 

 outer rectrices decidedly darker brown than the middle pair ; the middle pair, which is longest, 

 with a faint subterminal bar or drop ; the next pair with an obvious dark subterminal drop, 

 which is stUl more evident in the remaining rectrices ; all the rectrices with a narrow albescent 

 terminal fringe ; on their under surfaces the green edgings appear brighter than when seen from 

 above ; a few of the chin-feathers fulvous ; throat and cheeks ashy white ; feathers of the breast 

 pale ash, with broad luteous or yellowish-white centres, giving the breast a striped api>earance ; 

 the remainder of the feathers of the under plumage silky white, ashy at the base ; those of the 

 flanks with a faint yellowish tinge ; shoulder-edge and under carpals yellowish white; axillaries 

 silky white, tipped with yellowish green ; thigh-coverts pale ferruginous ; maxilla pale horn- 

 brown ; mandible yellowish white ; legs like the maxilla, only paler. A large species with a 



Obtained in the Philippine island of Guimaras by Dr. B. Meyer during the month of 

 March. The single example procured is labelled a " male." 



