1877.] ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS. 565 



fringe. Under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white. Bill (dry specimen) brown at tip, yellow 

 at base. 



Wing 1-94 inch, tail 1-00, tarsus 0-50, culmen 0-37. 



These two species of DiccBum were discovered by Mr. Everett in the island of Dinagat. 



^THOPTGA BELLA, sp. n. 



c? . Chin, throat, breast, and uropygium bright sulphur-yellow. Forehead, vertex, minor 

 carpal coverts, upper tail-coverts, and upper surface of rectrices dark metallic green. Occiput, 

 nape, and wing-coverts dark olive. Cheeks, lores, behind the eye, sides of head and neck, inter- 

 scapulars, and back deep blood-red. Quills almost black, margined with dark olive. Abdomen, 

 flanks, vent, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts silky white, more or less tinged with pale 

 yellow, especially on the mesial line, under tail-coverts, and carpal edge. A few blood-red 

 feathers on the upper breast. A metallic violet spot on sides of head. A narrow line of deep 

 blood-red runs along the rami of tlie mandible. A bold metallic moustache springs from the A. M. N. H. 

 base of the mandible, and descends the sides of the neck ; the upper half violet, the lower half 6er.4,yol.sx. 



p. tiOO, 



green. 



? . Above, wing-coverts, and edgings to quills olive-green. Uropygium bright sulphur- 

 yellow as in cJ . Space before the eye, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat, and upper breast "rey 

 tinged with yellowish olive-green. Lower breast, abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts white 

 tinged with yellow. Under wing-coverts white faintly tinged with yellow. Quills and rectrices 

 dark brown, margined with olive ; lateral rectrices tipped with albescent olive. 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



in. in. in. in. 



<S 1-68 1-44 0-50 0-50 



? 1-62 1-12 0-50 0-50 



Described from examples discovered by Mr. Everett at Surigao (N. Mindanao). 

 This species falls under Mr. Sharpe's subgenus Eudrejpaiiis. 



PtILOPUS ■? INCOGNITUS, sp. n. 



? . Above, tertiaries, and wing-coverts light emerald-green. Forehead, lores, ophthalmic 

 region, cheeks, and ear-coverts grey mixed with dingy green. Chin and throat almost pure white. 

 Neck and sides of neck greenish grey. An ill-defined pectoral band formed of green feathers 

 tipped with ruddy orange ; breast ashy green tinged with the same colour. Flanks o-reen. 

 Abdomen mixed green and ashy. Under tail-coverts (whicli are lengthened) pale creamy white 

 with a brown central streak. Thigh- and tarsal coverts ashy brown. Exposed upper surface of 

 rectrices tinged with golden. Lower surface pale ashy brown, with ill-defined paler tips. Quills 

 dark brown, margined outwardly with dark green. Secondaries with a pale narrow creamy 

 border, still narrower on the major coverts. 



Wing 5"25 inches, culmen 0'75, tarsus O'Sl, tail 3"75. 



Obtained at Butuan (N. Mindanao) by Mr. Everett. 



The sexual symbols prefixed to all the descriptions of the Philippine birds are taken from 

 Mr. Everett's labels. 



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