1875.] THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 365 



CertJua jugularis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 185, no. 7 (1766), ex Briss. no. 6; Walden, Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 27. [Antea, p. 76.] 



Nectarinia eximia (Temm.), v. Kittlitz,Voy. Liitke (Postels), iii. p. 328, " Manilla," necTemm. 



Hah. Negros, March ; Guimaras, March ; Zebu, April {Meijer). 



Dr. Meyer obtained numerous examples from the islands named, but none in Luzon. This 

 species most resembles A. frenata (S. Miiller), but is distinguished by the dingy colouring of the 

 upper plumage (which is brownish olive, and not yellowish olive), by entirely wantmg the yellow 

 super- and subocular stripes of A. frenata, and by the yeUow of the under plumage being pale 

 primrose-yellow, and not deep yeUow. The dimensions are about equal. A Zebu and a Negros 

 male display each some bright orange feathers bordering the dark blue plastron. The Philippine 

 female examples possess, in common with A. frenata £ , a yeUow superciliary stripe, but it is much Tr. Z.'S. ix. 

 paler in tint. 



A. jugularis differs from A. flammaxillaris (Blyth) t in wanting the deep maroon jiectoral 

 band and the flame-coloured axillaries of the Burmese species ; from A. pectoralis (Horsf.), from 

 which it is otherwise difficult to be distinguished, in wanting the steel-blue frontal patch. 



The examples of the female agree in all respects with Brisson's description of his Certhia 

 philijjpensis (no. 4), excepting that he omits to mention the pale supercilium. The dimensions 

 of the bill, one inch from the gape, given by Brisson are too large for N. sperata (L.) 

 {cf. Walden, torn. cit. p. 28 \_antea, p. 77]). 



Le Sowimanga de risle de Liigon, Montbeillard, Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 496. Certhia manillensis, 

 Gm. (S. N, i. p. 471, no. 32, 1788, ex Montbeillard; Walden, torn. cit. p. 45 [cmtea, p. 88]), 

 is probably Nectarinia insignis, Jard., from the Malay Islands, and not a Philippine species. 



CERTHIID^. 



Ehabdornis, Eeichenbach. 



124. * Ehabdornis mtstacalis. 



Meliphaga mystacalis, Temm. PI. Col. 335. f. 2, "environs de Manille" (1825). 

 Climacteris striolata, Kittlitz, Kupft. p. 5, pi. 6. f. 2, " Luzon" (1832). 



Hah. Luzon {Meyer). 



COEVID^. 



Corvine. 



CoRVUS, Linnseus. 



125. * CoKvus PHiLippmus. 



Corvus philijjjnnus, Bp. Compt. Eend. xxxvii. p. 830, " Philippines " (1853) ; Notes Orn. 

 Coll. Delattre, p. 8 ; G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 6207. 



t A. rliizophord', Swinh., differs from A. flammaxillans in possessing a steel-blue frontal patch and in having a dark 

 band below the maroon. The Penang specimen alluded to (P. Z.S. 1S71, p. 340, no. SG) is probably A. pectoralis ; but I 

 have observed a tendency in some species, in A. zenobia and A. fnnata for instance, to develop a frontal patch. 



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