224 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



13. Artamides mindanensis, Steere, List Birds & Mamm. 

 Philippines, p. 14 (1890) ; Grant, Ibis, 1896, pp. 536, 537. 



Of the Mindanao Cuckoo-Shrike I have received a pair : 

 a female from Samar and a male from Leite, the latter island 

 beinj^ a new locality. The relations of this species are dis- 

 cussed in my previous paper, cited above. 



[Iris and bill black ; feet greyish black. — J. W.] 



14. Pericrocotus leytensis, Steere, List Birds & Mamm. 

 Philippines, p. 15 (1890); Bourns & Worcester, Occ. Pap. 

 Minnesota Acad. Sci. i. no. 1, p. 41 (1894). 



There are several examples of the Leite Minivet from that 

 island, as well as from Samar, whence it had already been 

 procured. Prof. Steere's type, an adult male from Leite, 

 agrees in every particular with a similar bird shot by 

 Mr. Whitehead in Samar ; both have six or seven of the 

 inner secondary-quills ornamented on the outer webs with 

 orange-red subterminal drops. But this character, as we 

 have already shown, is variable, and cannot be altogether 

 relied on. 



15. Hypothymis azurea (Bodd.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1896, 

 p. 540. 



The Black-naped Flycatcher is also represented from both 

 collections. 



It may here be noted that the type of Cyanomyias ccelestis 

 (Tweedd.) differs considerably from the two examples in the 

 Steere collection obtained respectively at Samar and Basilan. 

 In both these, the top of the head, long feathers of the 

 occiput, and the mantle are cobalt, with a slight greenish 

 tinge; while in the type these parts are strongly washed 

 with purple, and the throat and fore neck are much richer 

 purple-blue. The birds from Samar and Basilan resemble 

 one another in plumage; the former is marked male, the 

 latter female. I do not question the specific identity of these 

 three birds : that from Samar is no doubt an immature male, 

 and if the female from Basilan is fully adult, which she has 

 every appearance of being, the sexes differ one from another 

 in the colour of the head, mantle, and throat. This is 



