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OX THE OENITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 



[1877. 



that the principal dimensions of Mr. Dillwyn's type of M. cumingi and of Mr. Sharpe's type of 

 M. lowii are essentially the same, while the dimensions of the Philippine Megapodes are sensibly 



larger. 



P.Z.S.1877, 

 p. 767. 



Mr. Sharpe states that the Labuan birds diflfer from the Philippine in being smaller, and he 

 admits that the plate (/. c.) of M. cumingi represents the Bornean Megapode, and yet he assumes 

 that Mr. Dilhvyn described from Cuming's Philippine individuals. As I first drew attention 

 (Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 225) to the desirability of recompariug the Philippine Megapode with the Bornean 

 31. cumingi*, and as Mr. Sharpe after making the comparison asserts that they difi"er specifically, 

 I propose the title of Megapodius dillwyni for the Philippine species obtained by Cuming f. 



63. Cn.yiADRius fulvus (159). 

 [Cebu, male and female, April.] 



Two of the male examples are in almost full breeding-plumage, a few only of the chin- and 

 throat-feathers not being black. 



64. Gallixula chloeopus (169). 



[Cebu, female, juv., March. Iris crimson, bill dirty orange-yellow, brown at the base, legs 

 grass-green, nails brown, h. Cebu, female, April. Iris crimson, bill light brown, apical portion 

 light greenish, legs green.] 



65. Oetygometea cinerea (172). 



[Cebu, male, March. Iris crimson, bill greenish brown, legs dull greenish, nails brown. 

 h. Cebu, female, March. Iris crimson, maxilla greenish brown, mandible green, legs dull greenish, 

 nails brown.] 



66. Eallina eubtzonoides. 



The Bail, Brown, lUustr. p. 94, t. xxxvii., " Ceylon" (1776). . 



Gallinula eurizonoides, Lafresn. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 368. 



Ballus zeylanicus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 716. no. 17 ; Jerdon, B. Ind. iii. p. 725, nee Gm. 



Rallus zeylanicus, Gm., /. c. auctt. recent, nee Gm. 



[Cebu, male, April. Iris brilliant red. b. Cebu, female, April. Iris bright brick-red, bill 

 blackish, the base tinged light green, tip greyish, legs dull greenish leaden, feet dark lead-grey, 

 nails grey.] 



* {Antea, p. 388.— Ed.] 



f Since I arrived at this conclusion Mr. Dillwyn has kindlj- written to me to say, respecting the M. cumingi described 

 by him in the P. Z. S. (and also in his Nat. Hist. Labuan), the description was from a specimen which he received from 

 Motley from Labuan. Wolf's iigure was taken from the same specimen. 



