542 ON THE OENITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877. 



support my former (l. c.) opinion that the Andaman birds specifically differ from Indian and 

 Malaccan ; otherwise the Indian race would require a new title. 



70. Trijs'goides htpoleucus (183). 



[Cebu, male, April. Iris brown, bill dark brown, legs light greenish-grey, nails black.] 



71. ToTAJSfUS INCANUS. 



Scolojtax incaniis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 658. 



[Cebu, female, April. Iris dark brown, bill very dark brown, legs ochreous yellow, nails black.] 



Wings 6'50. Breeding-dress. 



72. Gallinago megala (188). 

 [Cebu, female, April.] 



P.Z.S.1877, 73. BUTORIDES javanica (197). 



^' ' [Cebu, March. Iris golden-yellow, orbital and loral regions light green, bill black, base of 



mandible yellowish, legs and feet dull green, nails grey-black.] 



74. Ntcticorax manillensis (198). 



[Cebu, male, May. Iris golden-yellow, bill brown, mandible dirty yellow, legs light greenish- 

 yellow, nails grey.] 



The male of which the soft parts are described above is a young bird. Above the plumage 

 is rich dark brown, each feather centred for its entire length (as on the neck) or for its terminal 

 half (as on the back) with clear ferruginous. Underneath the plumage has the same character ; 

 but the ferruginous colour is diluted, and on the breast tawny. The quiUs are of the same rich 

 dark chestnut colour that prevails in the adult. Chin and throat pure white. The crown of the 

 head is like the neck, and not black as in the adult. Many of the frontal and coronal feathers 

 have prolonged, twisted or partly curled terminal naked shafts of a yellowish albescent colour 

 and over half an inch in length. This occurs in two specimens. 



An example (without a label) in almost full dress, has the forehead, crown, and occipital 

 crest black. The remainder of the upper plumage and the exposed surfaces of the wings are 

 rich dark chestnut-rufous, darkest on the interscapular region. The chin and throat pure 

 white, with a few feathers tipped and centred brown. The sides of the head, the sides and front 

 of the neck, upper breast, and flanks pale rufous tawny with broad ruddy-brown margins. Lower 

 breast and abdomen white and tawny-white with the bro^vn margins narrower. Under tail- 

 coverts white, some blotched Avith creamy rufous. Long axillaries pale pure rufous. Carpal 

 edge pure white. Culmen 2-87 inches, tarsus 3-75, wing 12-75. 



The long, pendent, white nuchal plumes are absent, the black tips of which are said to be 

 one of the characters which differentiate N. manillensis from N. caledonicus. The differences 

 between the two species are otherwise well marked ; but Professor Schlegel's opinion that 

 N. maniUensis=N. crassirostris, ex Benin Ins., requires confirmation. 



The bill of this Philippine example is thicker than in K caledonicus (ad. ex Port Albany), 

 measuring in altitude 1 inch as against 0-75. 



