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532 ON THE OENITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877. 



Identical with Javan, Sumatran (Lampong), and Negros individuals. Two examples, 

 marked female by Mr. Everett, have many of the tbroat-feathers yellow, tipped with red. They 

 are probably immature birds. This species is but a developed form of X. hcemaceplmla, the only 

 distinction between the two being that the yellow eye-patches and the yellow throat of that 

 species are blood-red in X. rosea. Their distribution is curious ; for while X. hcemacepliala 

 occurs throughout the continent of India and the Indo-Chinese peninsula, and on the Philippine 

 island of Luzon, X. rosea is restricted to Java and the two Philippine islands of Negros and 

 Cebu, while Sumatra, again, is inhabited by both species. 



17. Maceoptertx comatus (52). 

 [Cebu, female, March.] 



18. Centkococctx vikidis (64). 



■[Cebu, female, April, " pairing." Iris crimson.] 



19. L.ANIUS NASUTUS (70). 



[Cebu, female, March, " breeding." Iris brown, bill and legs black.] 



A numerous series of the Philippine black-headed Shrike in full dress, obtained in Cebu by 

 Mr. Everett, together with my Luzon series, enables me, after comparison made wdth Lanms 

 nigricejjs (as restricted I. c.) of India, to assert the specific identity of the two species. The 

 generality of the Philippine birds have the uropygium of a paler, more tawny ferruginous hue 

 than Bengal (Rognathpoor) and Goomsoor examples ; the grey tint descends lower down the 

 back; and the ferruginous colouring of the flanks and under tail-coverts is of a paler, more 

 dilute, shade. Still one Cebu individual is not to be distinguished from an adult Bengal 

 individual in this or any other respect. Philippine birds exceed somewhat in dimensions. 

 Adult Tonghoo birds belong more nearly to L, tricolor ; but I have not as yet met with either 

 Pegu, Assam, or Darjeeling examples in which the deep uniform ferruginous dorsal colouring of 

 L. tricolor runs up and joins the black of the nape, as in Nepal individuals. 



The examples of females marked " breeding " by Mr. Everett have the head and nape dark 

 ashy brown, rather than black. 



P Z S 1S77 ~^- Lanics lucionensis (72). 



p. 7o9, [Cebu, male, March and April ; female, March.] 



21. Aktamus leucorhtnchds (73). 



22. Gkaucalus steiatus (74). 



[Cebu, male, April. Iris fine deep crimson ; bill, feet, and nails black, b. Female. Iris 

 light claret-red.] 



These Zebu birds do not difier from Luzon and Negros examples. Two, in dark plumbeous- 

 grey plumage without pale edgings to any of the feathers, are marked male ; two, dark plum 

 beous-grey above and banded with black on the whole under svu'face, are respectively noted as 



