222 Major R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay on 



upper surface dull brown, tipped with rufous ; nape and mantle 

 pale rufous, barred with dark brown, with a metallic green 

 tinge ; upper tail-coverts freckled with rufous : beneath deep 

 chestnut with dark transverse bars. 



Young. One specimen marked female (Basilan, Everett) is 

 evidently young ; it has the throat and breast blackish 

 brown, with a central streak or spot of rufous on each 

 feather. 



Another young female from S. Mindanao is brown above, 

 edged with rufous, especially on the wing-coverts; head 

 bright chestnut, feathers dark at the base ; nape more or 

 less broadly barred with pale rufous or chestnut. Wing 

 7"4 to 7'7 inches, tail 8'7, tarsus 0*9. Iris yellow, with an 

 outer rim of crimsou ; orbital region and base of bill 

 crimson; bill light brown ; feet carmine {Everett). 



Hab. Philippine Islands, Palawan, Sulu Islands. 



The birds found in Negros and S. Mindanao have been 

 described by the late Lord Tweeddale as M. eurycerca. 



On examination of a series of seventeen specimens from 

 different islands I fail to see how this species can stand. 

 The colour of the back in all species of Macropygia varies 

 much ; the rufous edging to the wing-coverts, relied on 

 by Lord Tweeddale, is also a varying quantity, and besides 

 that, it is distinctly visible even in the type specimen, and 

 broadly so in the S. Mindanao birds, which Lord Tweeddale 

 has himself referred to M, eurycerca (I. c). 



The S. Mindanao birds are, however, a good deal smaller; 

 wing &6 inches. Palawan and Sulu birds do not differ, but 

 the latter agree with S. Mindanao birds in size. 



6. Macropygia emiliana. 



Macropygia emiliana, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 58 ; Reichenb. 

 Taubenvogel, p. 88, no. 197 (pt.). 



Macropygia tenuirostris, G. R. Gray; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. 

 iv. Columbce, p. 109 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, p. 137. 



Adult. Like M. tenuirostris, but smaller, and at all 

 times to be readily distinguished by its colour being both 

 lighter and brighter and having a distinctly vinous tinge ; 



