p. 615. 



610 ON THE OElSriTHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1878. 



of the family, belonging to the genus Buchanga ; and Palawan and Lombock are the only two 

 islands or areas known to me where there is a second species associated with a true species of 

 P.Z.S.1878, Dicrurus, unless, indeed, D. Icemostictus is shown to also inhabit New Ireland or I), megarhynchus 

 New Britain. 



Male and female. Upper surface of wings and tail burnished bronze-green. Glistening 

 scale-like feathers on crown of head bluish metallic green. Neck-hackles and pectoral and gular 

 spots dark metallic steel-blue ; these spots, which extend from lower part of the throat and cover 

 the breast, are lengthened and ovate in form rather than round, and occupy the tips of the 

 feathers. With their exception, the entire under surface is dull jet-black. The nape, back, and 

 uropygium is black with a blue gloss. The tail is forked for about one inch in depth ; and the 

 distance between the extremities of the outer pair of rectrices is nearly three inches ; upper tail- 

 coverts tipped with metallic green. 



Dimensions : — 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



in. in. in. in. 



c? ? 5-5 5-5 1-0 1-5 



[P. Princesa, d , November 1877 : iris crimson ; bill and feet black. $ , December : iris 

 deep brown.] 



All the female birds have the iris noted as being deep brown by Mr. Everett. On the label 

 of one of the males Mr. Everett has written : — " Iris in the living bird deep crimson." 



JJ. ;palawanensis most nearly resembles D. leucops, I), pectoralis, and I). Icemostictus ; but, 

 besides being much smaller, the shape and position of the pectoral and gular spots are different, 

 not being so round, but narrower. 



13. Buchanga leucoph^a. 



Dicrurus leucophceus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 587. 

 Buchanga cineracea (Horsf.), Sharpe, t. c. p. 324. no. 48. 



[P. Princesa, d , November 29, 1877: iris crimson; bill and feet black. 6, December: 

 iris deep rich orange-brown. ? , December : iris orange-brown.] 



14. Cyornis bantumas, 



Muscicapa lanyumas, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 146. 

 Muscicapa cantatrix, Temm. PL Col. 226. 



[P. Princesa, d , December 1877: iris chocolate; bill black; legs and feet purplish grey ; 

 claws dark grey. $ , January 1877 ; iris chocolate; bill black ; legs lead-grey.] 



The female of this species is well described, but badly figured, by Temminck (/. c). 



15. Hypothtmis azukea (85). 



[P. Princesa, ? , December 1877 : iris deep brown ; bill entirely black, interior of gape 

 golden ; legs and feet dark blue-grey.] 



