BRACHYPTERYX. 539 
a’. Head, neck, and throat rusty brown, contrasting with the rest of the plumage 
(females). 
b%. Crown lighter; chin and throat lighter-.......2.0..22.2.22.-.-- poliogyna (p. 539) 
b?, Crown darker; chin and throat deeper in color; belly not paler than breast. 
(Bard POU TETEH A Reve FE VS]aY0) #1572) a eR aN a Re ENF se brunneiceps (p. 539) 
e. Larger, tail longer; abdomen washed with brownish gray. 
Geo lon emi Ghy Ikebe eee ok cet ale 2 er hue mindanensis (p. 540) 
d*, Color much darker; russet of front of head intensified to almost a 
burnt umber and not extending backward beyond the eyes. 
malindangensis (p. 540) 
520. BRACHYPTERYX POLIOGYNA Grant. 
GRANT’S SHORTWING, 
Brachypteryx poliogyna GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 4, 40; Ibis 
(1895), 446, pl. 12, fig. 1; Wuirreneap, Ibis (1899), 216 (habits) ; 
Smarpr, Hand-List (1903), 4, 56; McGrecor and WorcrstTEerR, Hand- 
List (1906), 83. 
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor) ; Mindoro (Whitehead). 
Male.—Most of the plumage dark slate-blue; middle of abdomen 
washed with gray; forehead, lores, ring around eye, jaw, and chin black ; 
above each eye a concealed patch of soft silky white feathers; wings and 
tail black, the feathers edged with slate-blue; bend of wing white. Iris 
dark brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 140; wing, 67; tail, 49; 
culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 28; middle toe with 
claw, 22. 
Female.—l"ntire head, neck, chin, and throat umber or rusty brown, 
much darker on crown, lighter on chin and throat; remainder of plumage 
slaty blue, similar to the male, but lighter on the under parts and much 
grayer on abdomen. Length, 127; wing, 65; tail, 42: culmen from base, 
15; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 30; middle toe with claw. 21. 
521. BRACHYPTERYX BRUNNEICEPS Grant. 
NEGROS SHORTWING, 
Brachypteryx brunneiceps GRANT, Ibis (1896), 457; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 
217 (habits) ; SHarpr, Hand-List (1903), 4, 56; McGrecor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 83. 
Negros (Whitehead). 
Diagnosis.—“The Negros shortwing is closely allied to B. poliogyna, 
which Mr. Whitehead discovered in the highlands of Lepanto, Luzon. 
The males in fact, are, as one would expect, very much alike, but the 
Negros bird has the top of the head and throat washed with black in- 
stead of dark slate. Between the females the differences are much more 
marked ; the crown of the head in #. brunneiceps is much darker brown, 
much less strongly washed with sienna on the forehead: the chin and 
middle of the throat are much deeper in color, very little paler than the 
sides; and the general tone of the under parts is darker slate-blue, the 
belly being in no way paler than the breast. Adult male: Length, 127; 
