466 ON THE BIEDS OF THE PHILIPPIXES. [1877. 



No. 371,J.|2ebu. Eyes black. 

 No. 372, 9 .) ' 



No. 387, c?.)„ . . -, 



No. 388, 2 .}Ca-^S^"-l 



P.Z.S.1877, A Zebu male (No. 371) has the pectoral and flank feathers conspicuously margined with 



^ ' greyish brown ; and this is observed in a less degree in a female (No. 351) from Ilo-ilo. Panay 



and Camiguin are new localitie . 



13. Bateachostomus septimus, n. sp. 



[No. 427, $ . Pasananca. Eyes brown. Stomach had insects.] 



Bit fous phase. — Head, interscapulars, and elongated occipital crest rufous brown, most of 

 the feathers with a pair of pale rufous spots on either web, and defined by a narrow ^brown 

 transverse bar. Elongated auriculars barred alternately with brown and rufous. A patch 

 before the eye albescent rufous. A conspicuous nuchal collar formed by a series of very broad 

 feathers brown at the base, then an irregular subdued brown transverse narrow band, followed by 

 a pale rufous band, then another narrow zigzag brown band, which is succeeded by another 

 pale rufous band, bounded below by a broad transverse dark brown almost black band, which is 

 succeeded by a still broader white band, bordered again with black ; the white band is separated 

 from the black above and below by a rusty margin. Feathers of the back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts rufous, with irregular transverse brown markings, and in some with brown centres. 

 Scapulars tawny rufous and pure rufous, irregularly marked with brown zigzags, several with a 

 subterminal black mark and a terminal tawny rufous spot. Wing-coverts chestnut, with brown 

 vermiculations ; the greater coverts with large, pure white, ovoid terminal drops, mostly situated 

 on the outer webs, and bounded above and on the inner margins with black. Quills brown on 

 the inner webs, pale rufous on the outer, with obscure pale brown marks. Tertiaries pale 

 rufous on the outer webs, much indented with the brown of the inner webs. Innermost 

 tertiaries pale rufous on both webs, transversely marked with cloudy brown. Tips of several of 

 the inner webs of the quills pale rufous. Rectrices pale rufous, traversed by several bars of 

 rufous brown, each bar being bounded above and below by a brown line. Penultimate pair of 

 rectriccs with rufous spots, rather than bands. Exterior short pair with almost pure white 

 spots on the inner web. Chin and throat dingy rufous, intersected by brown zigzag lines. A 

 gular collar, formed of broad feathers with a broad subterminal pure white band, bounded below 

 and above by a narrow dark brown band. Feathers of the upper breast dingy rufous freckled 

 brown, pale tawny rufous at the base, with brown transverse lines and traces of white spots on 

 the margins of some of the webs. Concealed lower breast- and flank-plumes mostly pure white, 

 with dark grey markings near the base and terminated with rufous freckled with brown. 

 Abdominal feathers pale albescent rufous, striated with brown, and some marked with pure 

 white. Feathers of the ventral region isabelline white, with small obscure pale tawny rufous 

 margins. Under tail-coverts isabelline, the longer with subterminal marks of brown and rusty. 

 Under wing-coverts greyish white, banded with rufous brown. Thigh-coverts dark rufous brown. 

 Stifi" nasal plumes rufous, tipped brown. Wiug G inches, tail 45, tarsus 0'68, middle toe U-75, 



