608 ON THE OENITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1878. 



each feather narrowly margined with pale brown. A patch commencing below the posterior 

 angle of the eye and including the ear-coverts dark brown, this colour being continued as a 

 narrow band round the occiput. Space below the eye buffy cream-colour, which is continued as 

 a narrow line on the cheek, and expands into a broad stripe down the sides of the neck. 

 A brown stripe commencing at the angle of the mouth and descending down the sides of the neck ; 

 a few crimson feathers on the inner edge of this stripe. Chin and upper throat buffy cream- 

 colour, many of the feathers tipped dark brown. Lower throat and crop uniform buffy brown. 

 Breast-feathers pale yellow, very narrowly margined and boldly centred with dark brown ; within 

 the brown centres a pale yellow stripe of varying dimensions. Abdominal and ventral feathers 

 P.Z.S.1878, and the under tail-coverts pale yellow, with generally two cross bands of dark brown. Back, 

 wing-coverts, outer edges of secondaries, and exposed surface of tertiaries and scapulars golden. 

 Primaries and rectrices dark brown. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the top of the head dark uniform brown, almost 

 black, the crest-plumes being terminated with crimson. 



Dimensions : — 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



6 



2 



In one example ( 6 ) the lower breast-markings are not so well defined, and the general 

 markings of the lower surface are less pronounced. The upper tail-coverts are mostly black, some 

 only being tipped with crimson, others with golden. 



[P. Princesa, 6 , November 25, 1877 : iris dark brown ; bill black, basal half of mandible 

 grey ; feet greenish, nails grey. P. Princesa, 2 , November 27, 1877 : iris crimson ; other parts 

 as in d .] 



5. EURTSTOilUS ORIENTALIS (37). 



[P. Princesa, $ , November 29, 1877.] 



6. CacOMA^TIS MEEULINUS (57) ] 



[P. Princesa, d , December 10, 1877 : iris bright salmon-red ; bill black, mandible light 

 brown ; feet yeUow, claws black.] 



A single example, not sufficiently mature to be identified with certainty. 



7. StJENICULUS LUGUBRIS. 



Cuculus lugubris, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 175. 



[P. Princesa, ? , December 6, 1877 : iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet dark grey.] 



8. Phcenicophaes hakkingtoni. 



DryocoGcyx harringtoni, Sharpe, t. c. p. 321. no. 34, f. 1. 



[P. Princesa, d , November 29, 1877 : iris light brown ; orbital and loral space deep 

 crimson; bill light green, tinged with olive; feet and legs lead-grey; nails dark grey. $ , De- 

 cember : iris brilliant yellow, with ring of ochreous orange.] 



