568 ON THE OENITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1878. 



11. Graucalus striatus (74). 



[Nipah, d 2, July: iris Naples-yellow.] 



12. LaLAGE DOMINICA (76). 

 [Dinagat, 6 2 , June.] 



P.Z.S.1878, 13. Htloterpe philippinexsis (78). 



p. 109. 



[Dinagat, c?, June; i. ?: iris dark brown ; bill black; legs bluish grey.] 



Sexes alike — not to be distinguished from the type. 



14. DiCRUEUS STRIATUS. 



Dicrurus striatus, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 545. no. 20. [Antea, p. 469.] 

 [Nipah, d , July.] 



15. Leucocerca nigeitoequis (83). 

 [Dinagat, ? , June.] 



16. Ctoenis philippinensis. 



Cyornis jihilippinensis, Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 325, "Panay" (1876). 



[Dinagat, <3 , June.] 



A single example, hardly separable from Zebu individuals, and agreeing with them in 

 dimensions, consequently larger than Luzon and North-Mindanao specimens. Wing 3-66 

 inches, as against 2-95; tail 3-00, as against 2-75. 



17. Hypothtmis ccelestis. (Plate VII. fig. 1, in orig.). 



Hypothymis ccelestis, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 536, 2 (1 Dec. 1877) *. 



[Dinagat, ? , June : iris dark-brown ; bill blue, tipped and margined black ; interior of gape 

 yellow-green; orbital ring light green ; legs grey-blue.] 



? . Azure. Feathers of the head grey at their insertion, and each tipped with glistening 

 azure ; a lengthened occipital crest similarly marked. Space before the eye and lores pale blue. 

 Chin, cheeks, throat, sides of neck, and upper breast rich velvety turquoise-blue, darker than the 

 blues of the rest of the plumage. Back and upper tail-coverts with grey bases to the feathers, 

 the extremities being blue, which is paler on the upper tail-coverts. Wing-coverts of the same 

 shade of blue as the head. Quills dark brown externally, margined with a paler shade of blue. 

 Lower breast, abdomen, vent, flanks, and under tail-coverts white, tinged with pale greenish 

 blue, most intense on the flanks. Axillaries grey, tinged with pale blue. Rectrices above like 

 the quills; underneath dark brown like under surface of the quills. Shafts of the rectrices 

 brown above, almost white underneath. Shoulder-edge blue. 



Wing 2-82 inches, tail 3-00, tarsus 0-62, culmen 0-56. 



A form nearly allied to H. azurea, but difi'ering in its lengthened crest, its paler tints of 



* \_Anted., p. 564.— Ed.] 



