1878.] THE ISLANDS OF DINAGAT, BAZOL, NIPAH, AND SAKUTOK. 569 



blue, and in the absence of any black markings. The blue shade of the throat and upper breast 

 is about equal in tint to that of the predominant colour of the older known species. 



18. HlRUNDO JAVANICA. 



Hinmdo javanica, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, fasc. iv. t. 100 (1789). 

 [Dinagat, s , June.] 



19. SaECOPHANOPS STEEEII. P.Z.S. 1878, 



Eurylcemus steerii, Sharpe, ' Nature,' vol. xiv. p. 297, " Basilan." 

 Sarcoplianojps steerii, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 344, t. liv. 



[Dinagat, ? , June : iris brilliant sap-green ; bill, orbital skin, and legs fine blue, paler on 

 the tarsal scales ; nails light grey.] 



20. Broderipus acrorhtnchus (90). 

 [Dinagat, s , June.] 



21. MixoENis CAPiTALis. (Plate VII. fig. 2, in orig.) 



Mixornis capitalis, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xx. p. 535 (Dec. 1, 1877) *. 



[Dinagat, ? , June : iris orange ; bill blackish grey ; legs greenish lead-grey ; soles and nails 

 ochreous yellow.] 



? . Forehead, vertex, and occiput rufous, each feather with a pale fulvous central streak. 

 Space before the eyes and lores dull grey. Clieeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck ashy, each 

 feather with a pale albescent central streak. Nape, back, and wing-coverts the same, the pale 

 striations on the back being very prominent in consequence of the abnormal length of the dorsal 

 plumage. Uropygium and upper tail-coverts olive rusty grey and unstriated. Eectrices brown ; 

 outer pair with the Avhole outer and apical third of the inner web pale yellowish white ; remaining 

 pairs, middle excepted, broadly tipped on both webs with white, middle pairs slightly tipped with 

 white. All the quills brown, narrowly margined externally with fulvous grey, the tertiaries with 

 pale rusty. Basal portion of quills margined on their inner webs with white. Chin and throat 

 rufous and rufous-white. Breast, under wing-coverts, abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white, 

 faintly tinged with very pale yellow. 



Wing 2-75 inches, tail 2-50, tarsus 0-70, culmen 0-62. 



22. Maceonus striaticeps. 



Macronus striaticej)s, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 831, "Basilan" (1876). 



[Dinagat, $ : iris white.] 



The type specimen is not quite so rufous below, otherwise identical. 



23. IXUS GOIAVIEE (99). 



[Nipah, ? , pairing, July.] 



* [Antea, p. 5G3.— Ed.] 



