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into obscure streaks. The edges to the wing-coverts and quills are 
often rufescent, and this is probably a sign of immaturity.” (Sharpe.) 
“Included in this list with a d deal of doubt. Sharpe includes 
the Philippines in the range of this species, but whether he had any other 
authority for so doing than the Marquis of Tweeddale’s identification of 
a single immature bird from Negros we do not know. We can find no 
other record of its occurrence in the Philippines, and are inclined to 
doubt its ever occurring there at all.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
Genus CYORNIS Blyth, 1843. 
In Cyornis the sexes are slightly different in color; upper parts dark 
blue or olivaceous; throat and breast some shade of orange-buff or 
orange-chestnut, or else blue; abdomen light buff or white; bill moder- 
ate in size, decidedly, but not conspicuously, flattened ; bill from nostril 
equal to one-half of tarsus and less than middle toe without claw; rictal 
and nasal bristles moderate; first primary equal to one-half of second; 
second and third considerably shorter than fourth and fifth, the last 
two equal and longest; the wing when folded reaching to middle of tail. 
The young are conspicuously spotted. 
Species. 
a*, Throat and breast deep blue ...............- Peed setae kcctaas et eae MOTED td ( Been 
‘a’. Throat and breast orange-rufous or buff. 
b+. Upper parts blue. 
ce. Breast and throat darker and more uniform orange-rufous. 
d', Abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white...... philippinensis (p. 438) 
d’. Abdomen and under tail-coverts distinctly washed with chestnut-orange 
OT HUE cee cee sale ee Of Ee aA eh er banyumas (p. 437) 
¢. Breast lighter orange-rufous; throat much lighter than breast, nearly 
Witcers (males Peco sa eee. ee ee chee eee lemprieri (p. 439) 
b?. Upper parts dull brown, more or less washed with an olivaceous tinge; tail 
and its coverts more or less chestnut or ferruginous brown. 
ce. Tail and its upper coverts bright chestnut; no white about eye. 
platene (p. 441) 
e*. Tail and its upper coverts dull rusty brown; a white line above and below 
eye and extending forward on forehead (female)........ lemprieri (p. 439) 
398. CYORNIS HERIOT! Ramsay. 
BLUE-BREASTED CYORNIS. 
Cyornis herioti Ramsay, Ibis (1886), 159 (9); SHARPE, Bull. Brit. Orn. 
Club (1901), 11, 60; Hand-List (1901), 3, 215; McGrrcor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 71. 
Siphia enganensis GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1896), 5, 2; Ibis (1896), 
112; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 111. 
Luzon (Heriot, Whitehead). 
“Adult male.—Like the male of S. pallidipes, but the sides and flanks 
are fawn-colored instead of pure white. Length, 152; culmen, 18; wing, 
79; tail, 63; tarsus, 22. 
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