554 ON THE OENITIIOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877. 



[Suri^ao, c7 , May. Iris dark burnt sienna-brown; bill black, mandible greyish; legs grey; 

 claws dark grey. h. 2 , May. Iris dark sienna-brown.] 



Mr. Everett has sent a series of thirteen specimens of this distinct species of Crim'ger. It 



is readily to be distinguished by its ochreous-brown throat and upper breast. The nuchal hairs 



are present. The dimensions of the adult females appear to be less than those of the males ; 



P.Z.S.1877, otherwise the sexes are alike. This species belongs to a genus new to the Philippine area, 

 p. 828. 



43. COPSYCHUS MINDANENSIS (106). 



[Butuan, c? juv., May.] 



Only differs from the adult male by having the breast dark grey, each feather with a fulvous 

 central mark. 



44. CiSTICOLA GK.'VTI. 



Cisticola grayi, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, vol. ix. p. 400 *, " North Celebes." 

 [Surigao, <s , May. Iris yellow-brown.] 



This skin is not to be distinguished from the type of C. grayi, and may prove to be 

 = C. semirufa. Cab., the description of which is, however, too meagre for recognition. 



45. Okthotomus frontalis. 



Orthotomus frontalis, Sharpef, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 336; Ibis, 1877, p. 112, t. 2. 

 fig.l. 



[Surigao, d , May. b. Butuan, 2 , May. Iris clay-brown ; bill dark brown, mandible white ; 

 legs light transparent brown.] 



46. Orthotomus nigriceps, sp. n. (Plate LXXXV. in orig.) 



[Butuan, s , May. Iris clay-brown ; maxilla black ; mandible white ; legs and feet pale 

 brownish.] 



Forehead, vertex, occiput, nape, and ear-coverts very dark brown or black. Space before 

 the eye and a broad supercilium which passes behind the eye white ; chin, cheeks, throat, and 

 breast pale greyish white, the bases of the feathers being dark iron-grey. Lower breast tinged 

 with yellow. Flanks, abdomen, under wing- and tail-coverts yellow-olive. Back, uropygium, 

 and upper tail-coverts pure olive-green. All the wing-feathers brown, the quills being externally 

 margined with yellowish olive-green, the minor and major coverts with a paler yellow-olive. 

 Thigh-coverts mixed pale rufous and olive-green. Rectrices above dull rufous, with very narrow 

 pale margins. Underneath pale rufous, washed with light yellowish green. 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



in. in. in. in. 



1-70 1-70 0-85 0-GO 



Allied to 0. cinereiceps, but with a black head. 



* [Antea, p. 127. — Ed.] t Compared by Mr. Sharpe. 



