484 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Male.—Lores, nasal plumes, line around eye, jaw, and chin black; rest 
of plumage gray with no bars; yery similar to the male of A. striatus, 
but feathers of uropygium nolinced with white. Iris pale yellow. 
Wing, 160; tail, 118; culmen from base, 26; bill from nostril, 20; 
tarsus, 23. 
Female.—Uniform gray, similar to the male but no black about eye, 
lores, etc. ; similar to female of A. guillemardi, but slightly larger. Wing, 
160; tail, 120; culmen from base, 29; bill from nostril, 21; tarsus, 24. 
“The differences between A. guillemardi and A. mindorensis are very 
slight. Sharpe, Ibis (1894), 254, states that the latter is lighter gray 
in color than the former. On comparing specimens of these two species 
we are unable to perceive the slightest difference so far as the general 
color of the body is concerned. The feathers of the throat and crown in 
the male of A. mindorensis are, however, lighter gray than in the male 
A. guillemardi, so that the black markings on the side of the head stand 
out more sharply. 
“We have a large series of birds from Tablas. In nearly all of them 
the under wing-coverts are barred with black and white. This we consider 
to be a sign of immaturity, however, and we do not regard them as specif- 
ically distinct from the Mindoro birds, though their general color is 
slightly darker, and the black head-marking less distinct.” (Bowrns and 
Worcester MS.) 
A nest and one egg were taken in Mindoro on April 26, 1905. The 
nest is composed of mosses, small leaves, lichens, and fine rootlets; the 
outside is covered with cobwebs which serve to hold the materials together 
and to fasten the nest to the fork in which it was built. The nest is about 
115 mm. across the top and its outside depth is about 50. The ground- 
color of the egg is light gray with a slightly greenish tinge; a heavy and 
continuous wreath of spots and blotches encircles the shell near the plane 
of its short diameter ; a few small spots are scattered about over the entire 
surface; the deep shell-markings vary from pale to dark lavender; the 
surface spots and blotches are reddish brown; measurements, 30.7 by 
21 mm. 
451. ARTAMIDES CEBUENSIS Grant. 
CEBU ARTAMIDES,. 
Artamides cebuensis GRANT, Ibis (1898), 535; SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 
3, 290; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 77. 
Cebu (Hverett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor). 
Male.—Lores and line of feathers around eye black; general plumage 
gray; similar to A. mindorensis, but chin and nasal plumes gray. Wing, 
170; tail, 130; culmen from base, 31; bill from nostril, 23; tarsus, 27. 
Female.—Upper parts, throat, and breast gray; abdomen and crissum 
