1878.] THE ISLAND OF PALAWAN. 613 



and axillaries pale yellow ; carpal edge ochreous yellow. Ear-coverts pale cinereous, with almost 

 white shafts. Space before the eye uniform dull brown. Cheeks dull cinereous brown, with a 

 few white-shafted feathers. Head and nape olive-brown, tinged with pale grey, the frontal 

 feathers being distinctly tipped and centred with pale grey. Back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and 

 uropygium olive-brown, olive predominating, the long, lax, and fluffy uropygial feathers being of P.Z.S.1878, 

 a slightly lighter shade of olive-green. Upper tail-coverts olive-green. Quills light brown, 

 margined with a brighter olive-green. Eectrices light brown, edged with olive-green, and some 

 with paUid yellowish apices. Underneath pale brown, washed with very light yellowish green. 

 Shafts above brown, below yellowish white. 

 Dimensions : — 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



in. in. in. in. 



cj 3-37 3-37 0-88 0-88 



2 3-25 3-12 0-87 0-75 



[P. Princesa, c? , December 14, 1877: iris deep rich burnt-sienna; bill blackish brown; 

 legs and feet purple-brown. d , November 28 : iris chocolate ; bill dark brown ; legs pale 

 brown.] 



One example marked $ equals the d in its dimensions. 



Mr. Everett procured a good series of this short-footed Thrush. At first sight it can be 

 easily mistaken for £. plumosus (Blyth), of which it is a representative form. It is to be 

 distinguished by its pale abdomen, which in B. j)lumosus is browner and nearly uniform with 

 the breast, by its pale greyish breast, by its yellow under tail-coverts, which in B. plumosus are 

 ochreous-brown, and by its pale yellow, and not ochreous, wing-lining and axillaries, and by the 

 cinereous or pearl-grey edgings and centres of the frontal plumes. Nor is the green of the quills 

 and rectrices nearly so developed. The colouring of the abdominal plumage resembles that of 

 lole oUvacea, but is not so distinctly yellow. 



23. Beachypodius melanocephalus. 



Lanius melanocephalus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 309. 



[P. Princesa, s ? , January 1878 : iris violet-blue ; bill and legs black.] 

 Undistinguishable from typical examples. 



24. Crinigee featee. 



Criniger frater, Sharpe, t. c. p. 334. no. 77. 



[P. Princesa, c? , December 1, 1877: iris red-brown; bill horn-grey, darker on culmen. 

 $ , December : iris red-brown ; bill dark grey ; mandible whitish ; legs, feet, and nails pallid 

 brown.] 



25. Crinigee palawanensis, n. sp. 



Male and female. Chin, lower breast, abdomen, vent, under tail-coverts, wing-lining, 



4e: 



