536 ON THE OENITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877. 



42. ZOSTEROPS EVERETTI, n. sp. 



[Cebu, male and female, April. Iris light yellow-brown, maxilla blackish, mandible and 



legs pale grey.] 



Male and female. — Above oil-green, darker than in Z. imlpebrosus, and much darker than 

 in Z. meyeni of Luzon. Narrow frontal band and lores, chin, throat, under tail-coverts, and 

 shoulder-edge bright yellow. Below the eye a distinct black mark. Breast and flanks pale but 

 decided iron-grey. Mesial band of abdomen, extending to vent, bright yellow. Rectrices above 

 pale brown washed with oil-green. 



Wings 2-06, tail 1-87, tarsus 0-70, culmen 0-50. 



This species, closely allied to Z. lateralis, is to be distinguished by its green rectrices. 



43. Prionochilus quadeicolor, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 2, inorig.) 

 [Cebu, April. Iris dark brown ; legs, bill, and feet glossy black.] 



The sex is not stated on the label. 



Chin, throat, cheeks, sides of neck, breast, flanks, under wing-coverts, axillaries, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts pale greyish silky white, the chin, cheeks, and axillaries being almost pure 

 white. Forehead, sides of head, vertex, and occiput, descending low down the nape, dull black. 

 Interscapulars and back black, broadly tipped with cinnabar-red. Uropygium black with olive- 

 yellow tips to the feathers. Upper tail-coverts, rectrices, and wing-coverts rather glossy bluish 

 black. Quills dark blackish brown. 



Wings 2-12, tail 1-25, tarsus 0-50, culmen 0-37. 



This is one of the most important additions made by Mr. Everett to the Philippine fauna, 

 adding, as it does, one of the hitherto missing characteristic Malayan genera ; for, although 

 P.Z.S.1877, Mr. Sharpe {t. c.) includes PrionocMJus amongst the Phili^jpine genera, it is only on the strength 

 p. 763. q£ ^ Palawan example of the genus. 



44. Dictum eubriventre (120 partim). 



Pipra papnensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 1004. 

 Dicceum rvhriventer. Lesson, Tr. p. 303. 



Bicoeum retrocinctum, female, Gould, B. As. xxvii. t. — ; cf. Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 

 viii. p. 509. 



[Cebu, male, April.] 



This example, in the plumage of B. retrocinctum, female, apud Gould, is also marked a 

 male, like the one obtained in Cebu by Meyer (/. c.) and by Mr. Everett (P. Z. S. 1877, p. 698) 

 \antea, p. 523] in Luzon. Count Salvadori's view (/. c.) that it is not the female of D. retro- 

 cinctum, Gould, but a distinct species, is therefore confirmed. I am further inclined to the opinion 

 that D. retrocinctum, if from either island, is from Mindanao and not from Luzon, and that 

 Sonnerat obtained the type of P. papuensis in Luzon and not in Mindanao. 



45. DiCiEUM doksale. 



Dicceum dorsale, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 340. 



[Cebu, male, April. Iris brown.] 



