344 ON THE BIRDS INHABITING [1875. 



Pseudolalage melanictera, Blyth, Sclater {lapsu calami), Ibis, 1862, p. 78 ; Gray, Hand-list, 

 no. 5129. 



? Lalage uropygialis, Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 541, "-Patr. inccrt." (1854) ; Coll. Delattre, 

 p. 78. 



Ilab. Luzon (v. Martens). 



Feathers of the uropygium spinous ; otherwise a true Lalage. The diagnosis of L. uropy- 

 gialis, Bp., applies well to this species ; but the spinous character of the uropygial feathers is not 

 mentioned. On the stand of the specimen in the British Museiim Bonaparte's title is inscribed, 

 Tr. Z. S. ix. although that name is altogether ignored in the ' Hand-list,' where, instead, the misprint in the 

 p. 179. c jijjg ' ^^ ^ j jg adopted, and Mr. Blyth's original title attributed to Hartlaub. 



PACHYCEPHALID^. 



HTLOTERPEt, Cabanis. 



78, *Hylotekpe philippinensis. (PL XXXI. fig. 2, in orig.) 



Ilyloferpe 2)hilip2n'nensis, Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vol. x. p. 252, " Luzon " 

 (October 1, 1872). 



Ilab. Luzon [Meyer). 



Dr. Meyer's researches in the Philippines have added an additional member of a genus 

 hitherto not known to be there represented. The small group of Pachycephaline birds to which 

 the title of Ilyloterpe is restricted, is now known to contain six species. They are entitled to 

 subgeneric distinction. The sexes are, I believe, alike ; and they possess this further peculiarity, 

 that they wear, in adult plumage, a sombre garb recalling the adolescent and the female plumage 

 of the true black-and-yellow Pachycephalce. This Philippine species is a representative form of 

 //. snlphurivenfris, Walden, ex Celebes. Above, it differs by its plumage being olive-green, and 

 not brown, and underneath by the yellow extending higher, and being much brighter. The bill 

 is likewise more powerful. Seen from above, //. pliilippinensis is difficult to distinguish from 

 H.fulvotincta, Wallace, ex Flores ; while, in the same way, //. sulphuriventris closely resembles 

 //. griseiceps ex N. Guinea. Seen from below, however, the affinities are reversed, the Floi-es 

 Ilyloferpe showing a great resemblance to that of Timor, //. orpheus (Jard.), and the Celebean 

 and Philippine species but differing slightly. 



t Wiegm, Archiv f. Naturg. 1847, i. p. 321, type Hylocliaris 2^J'i!omela, 8. Miiller. Boie (Isis, 1831, p. 540) 

 gave the title of Hijlocliaris to a section of the Trochilidce. But Mr. G. E. Gray, besides adopting the title (Hand-list, 

 i. p. 148) for a genus of that family, employs it again (torn. cit. p. 389) for the Pachycephaline genus named by Dr. Cabanis 

 Hijloterpe, and attributes it also to Boie, with the date 1827. Dr. Cabanis (I. c.\ on the other hand, refers the Pacliycephaline 

 genus Uijhcliai-h to S. MiiUer, of which he states IIi/1ochai-is pMlonichi^ S. Miiller, to be the type ; and he changed the 

 generic title, as that of Hylocliaris was preoccupied. S. Miiller published that title, without giving any characters, in his 

 papers on his zoological discoveries in the Sunda Islands (Tijdschr. Nat. Gcschied. en Physiol, ii. p. 331, 1835) ; but he 

 called the species Hylocharis luscinia, and the title II. philomela is not given by him. It is probable that the two titles 

 refer to the same species, which is the Tephrodornis grisola, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1843, p. 180 *", and is described op. cit. 1842, 

 p. 799. If Mr. G. R. Gray is right, and it can be shown that Hylocharis, Boie, 1825, was founded on the Hylocharis 

 luscinia or philoinela of S. MiiUor, the generic title Hyloterpe will have to fall. 



