588 ON THE OENITHOLOaT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1878. 



Rectrices above rich brown, with five or six very narrow cross dark brown irregular bands, a 

 broader dark brown subterminal band. Shafts pure white for three fourths of their length. 

 Rectrices underneath albescent, the brown bands being more conspicuous than above. 



Wino- 15-20 inches, tail 12-00, tarsus 3-50, culmen 1-50. Nuchal crest-plumes dark brown, 

 tipped with white; length 3-30. 



5. Haliastur inteemedius (17). 



[Valencia, ? , August.] 

 In full plumage. 



6. Merops philippinus (35). 



[Valencia, 6 2 , August. Dumaguete, 2 , August.] 



The series (7) consists of examples ranging from first plumage to that of the almost adult. 

 None are in full plumage. 



7. Merops bicolor (36). 



[Valencia, <s 2 , August.] 



In a series of five examples, one is in perfect plumage, the remaining four represent diff"erent 

 stages of immaturity. 



8. EURTSTOMUS orientalis (37). 

 [Dumaguete, $ , August.] 



9. Entomobia gulaeis (44). 



[Valencia, 3 , August. Dumaguete, $ , August.] 



10. Sauropatis chloris (47). 



[Valencia, ? , August. Dumaguete, ? , August.] 



11. XANTHOLiEMA ROSEA (51). 



[Valencia, d , August.] 



12. COLLOCALIA FBANCICA. 



Hirundo francica, Gm. S. N. i. p. 1017; Walden, Ibis, 1874, p. 132. no. 70. [Antea, p. 258.] 

 [Valencia, 6 ? , August.] 



Mr. Everett's researches enable me to make known the existence in the Philippines of a 



second species oi Collocalia. He has sent five examples. Underneath they are mouse-grey; 



above fuliginous brown, faintly tinged with bottle-green. The wings and tail darker brown 



P.Z.S.1878, than the back, showing a greenish gloss on the new feathers. I can find no character whereby 



p. 283. ^Q separate these Negros individuals from those inhabiting Malacca, the Andamans, Sikim, 



Ceylon, the Neilgherries, the Mauritius, and the Fiji Islands. Wing 4*50. Formerly (/. c.) I 



