356 ox THE BIEDS INHABITING [1875. 



101. *Ixrs? UROSTICTCS. (PI. XXXII. fig. 2, in orig.) 

 Brachypus urostictus, Salvadori, Atti R. Accad. Sc. Torino, v. p. 509, "Philippines" 



(March 27, 1870). 



Hah. Luzon {Mcijer). 



A well-marked species, combining the crested head and general characters of an Otocompsa 

 with the puffy plumage of Brachypus euptilosus, J. & S. 



Turdus (Criniger) gularis, Horsf., is stated by Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 1865, p. 48) to be found in 

 -the Philippines. But Dr. O. Finsch (J. f. O. 1867, p. 15) observes that Java is the only locality it 

 is known, with certainty, to inhabit. 



Htpsipetes, Vigors. 



102. *Htpsipetes philippinensis. 

 La petite grive des Philippines, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 316, " Philippines " (descr. 



orig.). 



Turdus philippensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 814, no. 40 (178S), ex Month. ; Gray, Hand-list, 

 no. 3917 ; v. Martens, J. f. O. 1806, p. 13, no. 51. 

 Tr. Z. S. ix. Galgulus philippensis, Kittlitz, mot. propr. Kupfert. p. 8, pi. 12. fig. 2, "Philippines" 



(1832). 



Hypsipetes pihilijipensis, Strickl. mot. propr. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 413, "Manilla" 

 (1844); V. Martens, torn. cit. no. 55. 



Philcdon gularis, Cuv. Mus. Paris ; Pucheran, Archives du Mus. vii. p. 344, pi. 18, " China? ; " 

 Gray, Hand-list, no. 3992. 



Hab. Guimaras, Luzon, Zebu {Meyer). 



The sexes, as determined by Dr. Meyer, do not differ. In the Hand-list, no. 3917, this 

 species is classed along with Microscelis amaurotis under the Pycnonotinw, while Hypsipetes 

 vtclellandi is included in the Phyllornithinoe. It is difficult to discern in what respect 2Iicro- 

 scelis differs from Hypsipetes ; but anyhow this Philippine species is nothing more than a 

 representative form of //. m'clellandi. 



Montbeillard's type was obtained in the Philippines by Sonnerat. Cuvier's is said to have 

 been brought from China by Dussumier (October, lS20),^de Pucheran, I. c. The species is 

 not included in Swinhoe's list of the birds of China (P. Z. S. 1871). It has received the 

 same specific title three times over, each author believing the individual before him to be 

 undescribed. 



Pucheran's plate (/. c.) represents the top of the head rufous, whereas it is dark cinereous ; 

 and the plate on the whole is an indifierent representation of the Philippine bird. 



p. 192. 



