5OO MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a’. Mantle and back blue. 
b*. Chin and throat black. 
ce’. Crown and nape cobalt; eee back navy-blue.... eyanogastra (p. 500) 
ce’, Crown, mantle, and back bright turquoise-blue (male). 
' tweeddali (p. 502) 
b*. Chin and throat and nearly the entire plumage dull verditer-blue (female). 
tweeddali (p. 502) 
melanochlamys (p. 501) 
a’, Mantle and back velvety black................2..--.2-.--2220-0-0--- elle (p. 500) 
471. IRENA CYANOGASTRA Vigors. 
LUZON FAIRY BLUEBIRD. 
Irena cyanogastra Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soe. (1831), 97; SHARPE, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. (1877), 3, 266; Grant, Ibis (1896), 116; WuireHxEaD, Ibis 
(1899), 216 (habits). 
Irena cyanogaster SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 308; McGrrcor and. Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 79. 
Luzon (Meyer, Méllendorff, Steere Hup., Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino). 
Male.—F¥orehead, lores, a wide band over eye, entire sides of head and 
neck, chin, throat, and fore breast velvety black; rest of under parts 
deep blue; tail-coverts tipped with cobalt and the black bases of feathers 
showing through the blue to some extent; crown and nape bright cobalt; 
mantle, back, and rump deep blue, the black bases showing through to 
some extent as on the under parts; upper tail-coverts tipped with cobalt ; 
wings black; lesser coverts tipped with dark blue; median and greater 
coverts with wide tips of cobalt, forming two bands; alula-feathers and 
primary-coverts narrowly edged with dark blue; inner secondaries broadly 
edged with cobalt; rectrices black below; above, outermost pair all black, 
the middle pair all blue, the others blue on outer webs. Bill, legs, and 
nails black. Length, about 260; wing, 135; tail, 112; culmen from base, 
30; bill from nostril, 21; tarsus, 21. 
Female.—Differs from the male in having the black on head and 
throat duller and extending for a less distance on the breast; blue of 
under parts slightly lighter. Wing, 135; tail, 113; culmen from base, 
27%; bill from nostril, 19; tarsus, 18. 
472. IRENA ELLA Steere. 
ELLA’S FAIRY BLUEBIRD. 
Trena elle SrrrErE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 18; Ibis 
(1891), 313 (fig.), pl. 8; Sarre, Hand-List (1901), 3, 309; WHITE- | 
HEAD, Ibis (1899), 216 (habits) ; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List 
(1906), 79. ° 
Leyte (Steere Exp.) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns é& Worcester, Whitehead). 
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