456 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus RHIPIDURA Vigors and Horsfield, 1826. 
Rictal bristles long and Ae equal to culmen from base or 
longer; bill wide, depressed for most of its length, slightly compressed 
near tip; wing shorter than tail; first primary more than one-half of 
second and less than one-half of third; fourth, fifth, and sixth nearly 
equal, fifth longest; tail-feathers graduated, the difference between outer- 
most and middle rectrices equal to or greater than culmen; plumage 
soft, that of head neither scale-like nor pile-like; colors various. 
I can see no good reason why Hypothymis superciliaris Sharpe and 
H. samarensis Steere should not be placed in the genus Rhipidura; their 
long graduated tail-feathers, long stiff oral bristles, and lax plumage, as 
well as the similarity in the coloration of the sexes, certainly unite them 
with the members of Rhipidura.* 
Species. 
@. Head, throat, and fore-breast blue or blue-gray. 
6 Entire upper parts blue. 
c’. Blue of upper parts lighter, especially on crown; silvery cobalt of forehead 
MNOLE! COMSPUCUO US) ceceesen cect sane ac cee tetceae seca eee eee superciliaris (p. 456) 
ce. Blue of upper parts darker, crown nearly black; less silvery cobalt on 
forehead 23 ces ais ee scene ensnecrassenencosesnsone samarensis (p. 457) 
b*. Back, wings, and tail largely chestnut or cinnamon. 
¢. -Abdomenvand. dlanks wiht te--26 3.202 pcs eee erence albiventris (p. 457) 
e?, Abdomen and flanks brown. 
dad’. Smaller; erown lighter; abdomen and flanks cinnamon-brown. 
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cyaniceps (p. 458) 
d*, Larger; crown darker; abdomen and flanks light chestnut-brown. 
sauli (p. 458) 
a. Top and sides of head black. 
b*. Chin and throat black. 
c’. Fore breast cinnamon-brown like the rest of breast and abdomen. 
nigrocinnamomea (p. 459) 
G More) breast WwiHite ype t oe cos here eee en eee hutchinsoni (p. 460) 
b%. Chin and throat white with a black pectoral band.......... nigritorquis (p. 460) 
416. RHIPIDURA SUPERCILIARIS (Sharpe). 
MINDANAO BLUE FANTAIL, 
Hypothymis superciliaris SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 2d. ser. (1877), 
1, 236; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 278; Hand-List (1901), 3, 
248; McGrecor and WorcrstER, Hand-List (1906), 73. 
Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Hxp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Min- 
danao (Steere Exp., Platen, Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino). 
Male.--Above dark verditer-blue, top of head darker; forehead and 
a line over each eye silvery cobalt; wings and tail black, the exposed 
portions of webs mostly bright cobalt; chin, throat, breast, and thighs 
dull smoky blue; lower breast and abdomen white, washed with blue- 
gray. Bill, legs, and nails black; iris brown. Length, about 165; wing, 
78; tail, 78; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 14.5. 
* See also Whitehead, Jbis (1899), 107. 
