1877.] THE ISLAND OF LUZON. 521 



centred by a longitudinal stripe of brown. Uropygium and upper tail-coverts uniform olive-grey. 

 The base of the long and lax uropygial feathers pure dark grey, the tips only being olive-grey. 

 Rectrices above dull ruddy brown, obsoletely barred with narrow brown lines. Quills brown, 

 externally margined with ferruginous olive. Lesser wing-coverts olive-grey ; greater tinged with 

 ferruginous. 



Wing 2-75 inches, tail 5-25, tarsus 1-0, culmcn 0-56. 



[Monte Alban. ? : light clay-brown ; bill brown, lower half grey ; legs and feet whitish.] 



42. IXUS GOIAVIER (99). 



[Monte Alban. «, 6 : iris bright brown ; bill black ; legs dark brown. b, d : bill, legs, 



and nails black, c, 2 : bill and legs black ; iris brown. 



San Mateo, d, ? : iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs dark grey, almost black.] 



All Mr. Everett's specimens (a series of eight) of this species have the ear-coverts dark 



brown, the only character apparently which separates it from /. aiialis. The plumage of the 



two sexes does not differ. 



43. Hypsipetes philippinensis (102). P 2 g 1577 



[San Mateo, a, j : iris burnt-sienna brown ; bill black ; legs dark sepia-brown, b, ? : iris ^' ^''^^' 

 burnt-sienna brown ; bill black ; legs dark plumbeous. 



Monte Alban. c, d : iris burnt-sienna brown ; bill black ; legs and nails blackish grey.] 



44. MONTICOLA SOLITAEIUS (103). 



[Monte Alban. a, d : iris chocolate ; bill, legs, and claws black, b, d : iris dark brown ; 

 bill and nails black ; legs blackish brown.] 



Lower breast and abdomen almost pure dark rufous, a few of the blue and rufous feathers 

 with albescent tips. Above with albescent tips and subterminal black marks. 



45. Pratincola caprata (104). 



[Monte Alban. g : iris dark brown ; bill, legs, and claws black.] 



46. COPSYCHUS mindanensis (106). 



[San Mateo, a, s: iris chocolate; bill, legs, and claws black, b, d: iris dark brown; bill 

 black ; legs and claws very dark brown. 



Monte Alban. d, 2 '■ iris chocolate-brown.] 



The adult female is dark glossy bluish-grey above. The chin, cheeks, throat, and breast a 

 purer dead grey. The white of the abdomen somewhat sullied with rufescent. 



47. Corydalla lugubris (117). 



[San Mateo, a, d' ii'is dark chocolate-brown; bill Vandyke brown, lower half yellowish ; 

 legs ochreous yellow^ ; claws pale grey-brown. Z^, 5 : '? iris dark chocolate ; bill sepia-brown ; 

 mandible yellow-brown ; legs and feet brownish ochre-yellow ; claws jiale brown.] 



