638 ON THE OENITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1878- 



[Zamboanga, d ? , March.] 



A new outer rectrix has the central band pure white, the central bands on all the other 

 rectrices being bright rufous. 



42. Laxius nasdtus (70). 



[Zamboanga, d ? , April.] 



Mr. Everett sends a nestling killed in April. 



43. Lakius lucionensis (72). 

 [Zamboanga, d , April.] 



44. Gkaucalus steiatus (73). 



[Zamboanga, c7 , April : iris pale yellow.] 



Two examples marked have uniform plumbeous breasts and banded underparts and 

 uropygium. One marked ? is banded from the chin downwards as well as on the uropygium. 



45. VOLVOCIVOKA mindanensis, sp. n. 



[Zamboanga. a. d , April : iris dark brown ; bill and legs black, b. $ , April : iris dark 

 brown, c. $ , April : iris dark chocolate-brown.] 



Adult male (a). Chin, cheeks, sides of head, space before the eyes, ft broad supercilium, 

 ear-coverts, forehead, throat, and upper breast jet-black. Remainder of breast, crown, and whole 

 under surface of body dark leaden-grey, paler near the vent and on the under tail-coverts. 

 Wing-coverts, nape, and axillaries a slightly lighter shade of leaden-grey, palest on the uropy- 

 gium and upper tail-coverts, which are slightly mixed with white. Quills above black, with 

 faint grey margins. Sixth and remaining primaries tipped with greyish white. Secondaries 

 and tertiaries leaden-grey on their outer webs. Part of inner webs of quills, seen from 

 underneath, pale grey. This colour commences at the base of the first primary, occupying but a 

 small part of it, but is more extended on each succeeding quill, and reaches to the extremities of 

 the inner quills. Rectrices jet-black; outer pair with a large grey terminal mark, the same 

 colour being slightly indicated on the next pair. Carpal edge and wing-lining almost black. 



Adult female [b). The same as the male, but the grey colour of the whole plumage of a 

 paler shade, the uropygium more albescent, and no black about the head, throat, and breast. 

 Carpal edge and axillaries pale grey. 



Young female (c). Like the adult, but the grey colour not so pure. The chin, central part 



of the throat, a few scattered feathers on the breast and flanks, the wing-lining, and axillaries 



finely banded with white. Upper tail-coverts nearly pure white. Outer margins of some of the 



secondaries and carpal edge inclining to white. 



P. Z. S. 1878, Dimensions : — 



p. 948. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



in. in. in. in. 



