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externally blue, the secondaries tipped with buff like the coverts; under- 
neath orange-rufous, mottled with dusky margins to the feathers; abdo- 
men whitish.” (Sharpe.) - 
“The existence of this species in Palawan rests upon a single skin 
collected at Puerto Princesa, which is indistinguishable from the male of 
S. banyumas as represented, by a considerable series in the British 
Museum.” -(Hverett.) 
In the Hand-List Sharpe restricts the distribution of the Javan cyornis 
to Java, although in the Catalogue of Birds he places in the synonymy 
of Siphia banywmas, the male collected in Palawan by Everett. Mearns 
has recently described, under the name of Cyornis mindorensis, two speci- 
mens which certainly seem to be distinct from C. philippinensis, but they 
agree with the description of C. banyumas and with the plate of that 
species in the Birds of Celebes. Mearns does not compare his species 
with C. banywmas, and he could not have done so, as there were no 
authentic specimens of C. banyumas at hand when he wrote his de- 
scription. Unfortunately such specimens are still lacking. A male 
from Mariveles, Luzon and a female from Ticao Island differ from 
ordinary C. philippinensis in having the crissum orange-buff, but the color 
is not so deep as in the specimens from Mindoro. Cyornis mindorensis 
may eventually prove to be a distinct species, but for the present I shall 
consider it to be the same as C. banyuwmas. 
400. CYORNIS PHILIPPINENSIS Sharpe. 
PHILIPPINE CYORNIS. 
Cyornis philippinensis SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 
325; Hand-List (1901), 3, 216; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List 
(1906), 72. 
Siphia philippinensis Suarvr, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 450; WHItE- 
HEAD, Ibis (1899), 111 (habits). 
Ca-man-ti-gon, Siquijor. 
Bantayan (McGregor) ; Banton (Celestino); Basilan (Steere Eup., Bourns & 
Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Cebu (Meyer, 
Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat (Hverett) ; Gui- 
maras (Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (Hverett); Luzon (Jagor, Mdllendorff, 
Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque 
(Steere Exap.); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Hverett, 
Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Steere Hap., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester); Negros 
(Everett, Keay); Panay (Steere); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; 
Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Semirara (Worcester); Sibutu 
(Everett) ; Sibuyan (Bourns € Worcester, McGregor) ; Siquijor (Bourns & Wor- 
cester, Celestino) ; Sulu (G@uillemard, Bourns & Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns & 
Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor). 
