Nu. 1679. LI8T OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS— ME ARNH. 445 



CAGAYAN SULU BROWN-THROATED SUNBIRD. 



Characters of adult female (Cat. No. 202463 U.S.N.M., collected 

 October 15, 1907, on Cagayan Siilu Island, in the Sulu Sea, Philip- 

 pine Islands, by Edgar A. Mearns). — Differs from females of An- 

 threptes griseigularis in the absence of the grayish white chin and 

 throat; from ^1. ehlorogaster in the yelloAver coloration of the middle 

 underparts and greener upper parts; and from .1. malaccensis only 

 in the greater contrast of the canary yellow of the middle under- 

 parts with the green color of the flanks, which in .1. cagayanensis 

 are pale oil-green, and \i\ A. malaccensis olive-yellow. I have no 

 female of A. wigleswort/ii for comparison. Wing, G5 mm. ; tail, 47 ; 

 culmen (chord), 15.5; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 15,8. 



PYRRHULA STEEREI, new species. 

 STEERE BULLFINCH." 



Type.— Cat No. 210772, U.S.N.M. Adult male. Summit of 

 Mount Bliss, Malindang group, altitude 5,750 feet, northwestern 

 Mindanao, Philippine Islands, June 9, 1906, Collected by Edgar A. 

 Mearns (original number 14278). 



Characters. — Similar to Pyrrhula leucogenys Grant,'' from the 

 mountains of Lepanto in northern Luzon. The Mindanao bird differs 

 in being smaller, with a differently colored, much smaller bill, more 

 brownish coloration, and a tendency to whitening on the middle of 

 the abdomen, which the Luzon bird lacks. 



Adult mcde (type, killed July 9). — Crown and front of head all 

 round, to just behind eye, black; crown glossed with purplish blue; 

 lores, malar region, chin, and upper throat dead black; auriculars 

 white; scapulars and interscapular region deep broccoli brown; rump 

 white; rectrices, upper tail-coverts, primaries, secondaries, tertials, 

 primary coverts, and base of greater wing-coverts, glossy bluish 

 black ; lesser wing-coverts dark broccoli brown ; terminal two-fifths of 

 greater wing-coverts broccoli brown, paler terminally; outer web of 

 innermost secondary edged externally with orange-vermilion; under 

 parts broccoli brown, shading to whitish on middle of belly and to 

 tawny ochraceous on crissum; axillars pure white; under wing- 

 coverts brown at base, broadly white terminally ; underside of shafts 

 of primary quills white nearly to the tips. Fresh specimens, includ- 

 ing the type, Avere noted in the field as having the iris dark brown ; 

 bill plumbeous-black, perceptibly horn color at extreme base; feet 



''The section to which this bnllfincli belongs has recently been made the snb- 

 geuus Protopyrrhiihi Bianchi. Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci., St. I'etersburg, 5th ser., 

 XXV, 1906, PI). ir)9-l!)8. Snbgeuns for P. nipaU'min, cnjthrocephuUi, cnjthaca, 

 and leucogenys. 



6 Described in tlie Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, No. XXVIII, 

 p. XLI, June 29, 1895. 



