1878.] ON A NEW PHILIPPINE GENUS AND SPECIES. 573 



43. Carpophaga ^nea (141). 

 [Dinagat.] 



44. Mtbisticivora bicolor (143). 



[a. Nipah, S , July : iris dark brown ; bill blackish blue ; feet light Jead-blue. b. Sakuyok, 

 d , July.] 



45. Hemiphaga poliocephala (144). 



[Dinagat, S , June. Iris Indian-yellow, passing into red on outer circumference ; orbital 

 ring and patch crimson ; bill black ; feet carmine ; nails dark grey.] 



46. Ortygometra cinerea (172). P.Z.S.1878, 



p. 114. 

 [Dinagat, $ , June : iris crimson.] 



47. HtpotuEnidia torquata (177). 

 [Dinagat, 2 , June.] 



48. BUTOEIDES JAVANICA (197). 



\_a. Dinagat, 2 ; h. Nipah, 6 ? , July : iris bright yellow ; legs bright chrome-yellow.] 

 No date on label of Dinagat example, but kiUed in June. 



49. Dysporus sula (214). 



[Dinagat, S , June : iris white ; feet light leaden-green ; bill whitish green.] 



In full white and rich brown plumage. Wing 15-30, tail 10-00, culmen 3-90, tarsus 1-60. 



On a new Philippine Genus and Species of Bird. By Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.E.S., P.Z.S.1878, 

 President of the Society. [From the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ' ^' ^^'^' 

 read January 15, 1878$, Plate IX. in ori(/.] 



Until Dr. Steere some three years ago discovered in the island of Basilan two species* belonging 

 to the Timeliidm, this natural family, so characteristic of the Indian region, was supposed to be 

 unrepresented in the Philippines. Since then Mr. Everett has discovered a third species f in the 

 island of Dinagat, and a fourth, the subject of this note, in the island of Negros. This last bird 

 is so anomalous in its structure that I propose to constitute it the type of a new genus. 



* Macromis striaiiceps, Sharpe, aud Dendrobiastes basilanica, Sharpe. 

 t Mixornis capitalis, Tweeddale. 

 t [Published June 1, 1878.— Ed.] 



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