1878.] TUB ISLAND OF PALAWAN. 607 



species not sent to me by Mr. Everett ; so that the total number of known Palawan species of 

 birds .(and aU are from Puerto Princesa and its vicinity) now amounts to 64. This small number 

 cannot exhaust the avifauna of tliis large island ; and as Mr. Everett has now happily recovered, 

 and has returned to Palawan, I propose postponing any remarks on the character of the Palawan 

 ornis until we are in possession of the wider evidence which further collections will doubtless supply. • 

 Generally, however, it may be affirmed from the data before us that the birds of Palawan repre- 

 sent mostly Bornean genera and species, although a few distinctly Philippine types also occur. 

 The following species in the present collection have not hitherto been described : — 



4. Tig a everetti. 22. Br achy pus cinereifrons. 



12. Bicnirus palawanensis. 25. Criniger' palawaneims. 



17. Broderiims lialaioanensis. 34. Cyrtostomus aurora. 



19. Trichostoma mfifrons. 39. Corvus piisillus. 



20. Brymocataphus cinereiceps. 



1. Tantgnathus luzonensis (3). P.Z.S.1878, 



^ ' p. 612. 



[P. Princesa, 6 , January 1878.] 



Not separable from all other Philippine examples. 



2. BUTASTUR INDICUS (20). 



[P. Princesa, d ("?), November 28, 1877 : iris bright yellow ; cere light wax-yellow ; bill and 

 nails black ; legs and feet dull yellow.] 



3. Cheysocolaptes erythrocephalus. 



Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 315. no. 13, t. xlvi. f. 1. 



[P. Princesa, <s , December 2, 1877 : iris crimson ; bill pale yellow, tinged with green ; 

 feet and claws grey-green. ?, November 27 : iris crimson; biU pale yellow tinged with green ; 

 feet and claws greyish green.] 



The male example is in full adult plumage. That of the female (hitherto undescribed) 

 resembles the male in all respects excepting the crown of the head and the crest, the feathers of 

 which are ruddy brown, each being tipped with a pale rusty-yellow drop or spot. The cheeks, 

 chin, and throat are washed with dilute crimson, not intense as in the male. 



4. TiGA EVERETTI, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. in orig.) 

 Tiga javanensis (Ljungh.), Sharpe, t. c. p. 315. no. 14? 



Three examples, two of the adult male and one of the adult female, were obtained near 

 Puerto Princesa by Mr. Everett. They probably belong to the species doubtfully identified by 

 Mr. Sharpe [1. c.) with T. javanensis. From this species, as well as from all the other species of 

 the genus known to me, the present bird differs in the female having the head and crest uniform 

 dark brown, the latter being broadly terminated with crimson. The lower part of the throat 

 and the upper breast are uniform buffy brown, and not squamate. 



Male. Forehead, crown and crest, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts crimson. Many of the 

 dorsal plumes washed with crimson. Lores buffy brown. Space behind the eyes creamy white, 



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