514 ON THE OENITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877. 



The total number of species known to be resident in the island of Luzon I estimated (t. c.) 

 at 133 * ; but Mr. Sharpe has correctly pointed out that Cataguan, which I had treated as a 

 separate island, forms, in reality, part of the island of Luzon. Piiffinus leucomelas, which I 

 recorded from there, must be added to the number of Luzon birds ; and to this Mr. Sharpe adds 

 Zeocephus nifus and Peiielojiides jjanini f, obtained by Mr. Cuming at Cataguan, and Erijthro- 

 pitta erythrogastra, on the faith of a Manilla example so labelled in Mr. Gould's collection. To 

 this amended total of 137 Luzon species Mr. Everett has enabled me to add the 9 species already 

 removed above from the general Philippine list, the 3 undescribed species and the 3 other 

 species new to the fauna above mentioned, besides the following 8 residents of other Philippine 

 islands : — 



Eudynamis mindanensis. Copsychus mindanensis. 



Lanius nasutus. Corydalla luguhris. 



Lalage dominica. Arachnechthra jugularis. 



Hinindo gutturalis. Rhynchwa capensis. 



The exact total of known Luzon residents will therefore now amount to 160. 



1. PrIOOTTURUS DISCURUS (2)i. 



[Monte Alban. a, 6 : iris brown ; bill lead-grey ; feet bluish grey ; nails dark grey. 

 h, J : iris chocolate-brown ; bill lead-grey ; feet bluish grey ; claws dark grey.] 



A series of seven male examples, shot in February, is sent by Mr. Everett, all being in 

 bright green plumage without a trace of blue on the head. The elongated naked shafts of the 

 middle pair of rectrices greatly vary in length, some being only half an inch, others two inches 

 in length. In two examples these feathers are prolonged for about half an inch, but the shafts 

 are webbed. 



P.Z.S.1877, 2. Cyclopsitta luxulata (4). 



^' ^^^' [San Mateo. 6 : iris dark bro^^Ti ; bill black, base pale lead-grey ; feet greenish grey ; nails 



dark grey.] 



The male example is in full dress and in P.-Ioxia plumage. The female has a few verditer- 

 blue chin-, chest-, and throat-plumes, and some of the rump-feathers obscurely lunated — 

 seemingly an immature specimen. 



3. MiCROHIERAX ERTTHROGBNTS. 



Hierax erythrogenys (10). 



[Monte Alban. 2 : iris brown ; bill black ; feet dull bluish ; claws black.] 



Obtained in February. In black and white dress ; and as Mr. Everett has ascertained the 



sex to be female, it would seem that the erythrogenys plumage is significant of nonage and not 



of sex. 



* Conf. Sharpe, t. c. p. 309. t Is it not P. maniTlce ? 



+ The numbers following the titles are the same as those of my memoir {t. c). 



