520 OX THE OEMTHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877. 



39. Broderipus acrorhtnchus (90). 



rSan Mateo, a, S : iris pale purplish-brown ; bill dull pale crimson ; legs dark lead-grey ; 

 claws black, b, d : iris white ; bill dull pale crimson ; feet bluish-lead ; claws black, c, d : iris 

 yellow ; bill pale dull crimson ; feet dark grey, d, 6 : iris purple-grey, outer ring white ; bill 

 pale crimson ; legs lead-grey, c, ? : iris purple-grey ; bill dull pale crimson ; legs lead-grey. 



Monte Alban. /, 6 : iris purple-grey ; bill white, tinged crimson ; legs lead-grey ; claws 



blackish.] 



Ten adult examples were obtained by Mr. Everett, seven males and three females. All the 

 males have the middle pairs of rectrices jet-black, tipped with yellow. The same feathers in the 

 females are washed with yellow ; and the body-plumage is not of so golden a tint. 



40. Megalueus palustris (96). 



[San Mateo. 6: iris orange-brown; bill black; mandible lead-grey; legs horn-brown; 

 claws dark ditto.] 



Identical with individuals from Burma, Assam, Sylhet, Munipur, &c. ; but I have not been 

 able to compare it with typical examples. The Bengal (Philippine 1) example, described by 

 Pucheran (Archives du Mus. vii. p. 342) as being one of the types of Gmcula camlata, Cuvier, 

 must belong to this bird and not to the Timalia chataroea, Frankl., of India ; and, judging from 

 Pucheran's remarks, the Javan bird, Malurns marginalis, Eeinw. {=Megalurus palustris, Horsf ), 

 althouo-h very close, appears to differ from the Indian bird. There is good reason to doubt the 

 P.Z.S.1877, occurrence of Timalia chatarcea, Frankl. ( = Gmcula caudata, Cuv., apud Blyth), in the 

 p. 695. ptjiiippines. Both Jerdon and Blyth appear to have been misled into identifying Franklin's bird 

 with the Cuvieran type by some remarks of Lafresnaye's (Mag. Zool. 1st series, Timalia). 

 Lafresnaye gave Franklin's diagnosis (P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 118) and wrote that T. chatarcea 

 " nous a paru etre le meme oiseau que celui intitule au Musee, Gracula caudata (Cuvier)." 

 Lafresnaye described a bird in his collection and identified it with the type in the Paris Museum 

 (said to have been obtained in Bengal by Dussumier in October 1820, but having, when Pucheran 

 examined it, "Manilla" written on its label). And Lafresnaye's description [l. c), and certainly 

 Pucheran's of the type (already alluded to), will not apply to Franklin's bird. Blyth (Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 6), in the belief that T. cliatama, Franklin, = G. caudata, Cuvier, mentioned, on Pucheran's 

 authority, that it was found in the Philippines ; and I inadvertently gave Franklin's species a 

 place in my list of Philippine birds {t. c. no 97), although I stated that Indian authors seemed to 

 have been somewhat hasty in identifying T. chatara'a with G. caudata, Cuvier. T. chatama 

 may, for the present, be safely elhninated from our lists of the Philippine fauna. 



41. Megalueus ruficeps. (Plate LXXII. in orig.) 



Megalurus ruficeps, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 94 (1877)*. 



2 . Lower surface white, faintly tinged with cream-colour on the breast. Flanks pale 

 earthy brown. Under tail-coverts pale dingy isabelline rufous ; thigh-coverts of a more decided 

 rufous. Space before the eye and supercilium, passing well behind the eye, greyish white. 

 Forehead, head, and nape pure bright uniform rufous. Back olive-grey, each feather broadly 



* [Anted, p. 509.— Ed.] 



