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with some black bars ; patch of feathers covering 

 the nostrils whitish ; general colour of the 

 throat and breast white, barred with black like 

 the rest of the underparts ; black bars on the 

 belly and underparts narrower A. mindanc7isis. 



The female of A. striatus is remarkably similar to the 

 male of A. panayensis, but the former may be easily 

 distinguished by the much smaller bill as well as by the 

 absence of the deep black colour on the lores and feathers 

 covering the nostrils. 



I append a list of the Philippine species, showing the islands 

 in which they have been found up to the present time : — 



1. Artamides striatus. Luzon. 



Mindoro and Tablas. 



Cebu. 



Lapac and Tawi Tawi, Sulu 

 Archipelago. 



Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Balabac, Palawan, and 

 Calaraianes. 



Masbate, Pan ay, Guimaras, 

 and Negros. 



Samar, Panaon, Nipah, Min- 

 danao, and Basilan. 



10. Edoliisoma panayense, Steere, List Birds & Mamm. 

 Philippines, p. 14 (1890). 



Some beautiful examples, including both sexes, of this 

 Black Cuckoo-Shrike were collected on the volcano of 

 Canloon. This species is very easily distinguished from every 

 other Philippine form at present known, and both males and 

 females may be at once recognized by having a pure white 

 band down the wing, while the vent and under tail-covcrts, 

 as well as the tips of the tail-feathers, are similarly coloured. 



Although this species is now recorded for the first time 

 from Negros, an adult female was obtained by Mr. A. H. 

 Everett twenty years ago from that island ; but Lord Tweed- 

 dale regarded this specimen as an immature example of 



