1877.] ON THE BIEDS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 471 



[No. 432, ? . Pasananca.] 



A female with greyish-brown upper plumage; tail 3-56. Eecorded for the first time from 

 Mindanao. 



30. CoRYDALLA LUGUBEIS. P.Z.S.ISTT, 



Corydalla Incjuhris, Walden, t. c. p. 198. no. 117 (1875) \antea, p. 362]. '^' ^^'^' 



[No. 357, d . Ilo-ilo. Eyes hazel. Stomach had seeds.] 



Panay is an additional locality. 



This example differs from the type in having the tertiaries and most of the wing-coverts 

 broadly margined externally with pale rufous, not albescent. The pectoral feathers are tin"ed 

 with pale rufous ; and the brown central streaks are much broader than in the type. The flanks 

 are washed with pale rufous. 



31. DiCiEUM MINDANENSE, n. sp. 



[No. 433, c? . Pasananca.] 



<S . Above — cheeks and ear-coverts fuliginous olive-green. Below greyish white, most »rey 

 on the breast ; quills dark brown, narrowly margined with olive-green on outer webs ; tertiaries 

 with the olive-green margins broader ; rectrices dark brown, faintly edged with olive ; axillaries 

 and under wing-co verts white ; feet and bill black. Wing 1-0; tail 1-1; bill, from forehead 

 0-59 ; tarsus 1-5. The bill is not normal, being longer than the head. 



This species is a representative form of I). hyj)oleucum, ex Basilan, which is black above 

 and larger. 



32. Nectaropeila JULiiE, sp. nov. 



[No. 402, 6.^^, , . ^ ^ , ,,, 



No 403 6 Pl^^™^P^- -'^y^^ "^^^^- ^^^^e quite numerous on the island, generally 



^^ ,„,' I about the tops of the hisrh trees.] 



No. 404, ? .J ^ t' J 



d . Forehead, entire head, and nape brilliant metallic coppery green ; chin, throat, and 

 upper breast brilliant metallic amethystine ; space before the eyes black ; cheeks and ear-coverts 

 brown ; lesser wing-coverts, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts brilliant metallic emerald-green ; 

 breast-feathers deep yellow, with orange-coloured tips ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 yellowish olive-green ; under wing-coverts pale yellow and white ; axillaries pale yellow ; back 

 and major wing-coverts and scapulars maroon-red; quills dark brown, externally margined with 

 yellowish ruddy brown ; rectrices black ; bill and feet black. The second example has no oranoe 

 edging to the pectoral feathers. 



? . Dull olive-green above, a narrow line passing from tlie base of bill over the eye pale 

 yellow ; chin, throat, abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts pale yellow ; breast the same, tino-ed 

 with grey ; minor wing-coverts olive-green, some tipped and centred with ruddy brown ; quills 

 dark brown, margined with ruddy brown ; greater wing-coverts and scapulars ruddy brown, mixed 

 with olive-green ; inner edges of some of the quills margined with white ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts pale yellow and white ; cheeks pale yellow ; ear-coverts olive-green ; rectrices black, 

 middle pair narrowly, the others broadly tipped with white, outer pair for nearly half their leno-th 

 white ; bill and feet black. 



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