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male, the belly, under tail-coverts, thighs, breast, and upper 

 tail-coverts buify white, uniform with the head and breast, 

 instead of dark rufous, as in P. panini. The chiselling upon 

 the beak is also very different. In P. panini both mandibles 

 are extensively grooved, the furrows in the upper mandible 

 being buffy white and the ridges between black ; the ridges 

 below are also black, with indications of lighter furrows. In 

 P. samarensis the chiselling is nearly limited to the lower 

 mandible, and upon this the ridges are white and the furrows 

 dark. 



Hab. Samar, Leyte. 



2rt. Penelopides mindorensis, sp. nov. {Op. cit. p. 13.) 



Similar to P. maniUce, but black, with bronze-green gloss, 

 instead of brown, as in P. manillce. The whole base of the 

 tail is light ferruginous, instead of this colour being limited 

 to a narrow bar, as in P. manilla, and the lower mandible is 

 plain, instead of being chiselled, as in that species. The female 

 of P. mindorensis has the feathers of the head white, as in 

 the male, thus differing from the other Philippine species, in 

 all of which the females are black-headed. 



The males and females of P. mindorensis differ chiefly in 

 the colour of the bare skin about the eye and the base of the 

 laeak, this in life being dark blue in the female and flesh- 

 coloured in the male. 



Hab. Mindoro. 



25. Artamides mindorensis, sp. nov. {Op. cit. p. 14.) 

 Nearly similar to A. striatus, but differs in having the black 



of the lores extending about the eye, and in the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts being uniform with the back, and not 

 fringed with grey. 

 Hab. Mindoro. 



26. Artamides mindanensis, sp.nov. {Op. cit. p. 14.) 

 Young. — Whole of under plumage and the rump and upper 



tail-coverts barred with black and white. Rest of upper 

 surface lead-grey. 



Adult male. — Chin, throat, and upper breast uniform plum- 

 beous grey, like the back. Rest of under surface and the 



