of Flycatchers from the Philippines. 4i7 



height of the lake to be a little less than 3000 feet, while the 

 highest point reached in getting to it is about 500 feet higher. 

 It lies due west of a point on the south-eastern coast of Negros 

 between the towns of Dumaguete and Sibulan, aud^ measured 

 in a straight line, about twelve miles distant. 



(1) Cryptolopha nigrorum, sp. nov. (Plate II. fig. 1.) 



Under surface light olive-yellow, clearest on abdomen and 

 crissura, the flanks and sides of body washed with dusky 

 olive-green ; chin, throat, cheeks, and ear-coverts finely 

 streaked with white shaft-lines ; upper surface olive-green, 

 dusky on head, clearer on interscapulars, dorsum, and uro- 

 pygium ; superciliary line extending from forehead to cervix 

 pale olive-yellow ; lores and postoculars dark brown ; remiges 

 and rectrices brown, broadly edged on the outer webs with 

 olive-green and on the inner webs with whitish ; wing-coverts 

 brown, broadly edged with olive-green ; greater coverts tipped 

 with pale yellow, forming a wing-bar ; axillaries and lining 

 and edge of wing pale yellow. 



Total length 3'7 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2*05, tail 1"35, 

 tarsus 0*65. 



Hab. Lake Dauao, Southern Negros, Philippines. 



(2) Abrornis oLivACEA, sp. uov. (Plate II. fig. 2.) 



J . Above olive-green, veiled on head and neck with ash ; 

 below whitish, streaked with pale greenish yellow ; remiges 

 brown, olive-green on the outer webs and whitish on the 

 inner webs ; first four primaries whitish also on the outer 

 webs; rectrices olive-brown, becoming olive-green on the 

 outer margins, inner webs narrowly edged with whitish ; 

 superciliary line extending to occiput, pale greenish yellow j 

 axillaries and edge of wing light yellow. 



5 . Similar, but with more yellow on the throat and less 

 ashy on the head. 



Total length 4*7 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 2*4, tail l*7o, 

 tarsus 0*75. 



Hab, Islands of Samar and Negros, in the Philippines. 



