518 Mr. W. R. Offilvie Grant on the 



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61. Chlorura brunnetventris, Grantj Bull. B. O. C. iii. 

 p. 1 (1894). 



This beautiful little Finch adds a third species to the genus, 

 C. hyperijthra, from Java, differing in having the upper tail- 

 coverts dull orange, while C. borneensis, Sharpe, from Kina 

 Balu, N.W. Borneo, has the breast and belly pale tawny 

 rufous. C. hrunneiventris further differs from both in having 

 the green of the sides of the breast washed with blue, and the 

 blue on the crown of the head deeper and less extended. 

 A key to the three species Avould read as follows : — 



Upper tail-coverts dull orange C. hyperythra. 



Upper tail-coverts green, much the same colour 

 as the rest of the upper parts. 

 Middle of the breast and belly pale tawny ru- 

 fous, contrasting with the deeper-coloured 

 chest ; sides of the breast green ; blue of 

 the forehead duller and extending over 



the crown C. borneensis. 



Middle of breast and belly deep tawny rufous 

 like the chest; sides of the breast green 

 washed with blue ; blue of the forehead 

 brighter and not extending over the 

 crown C. brunneiventris. 



63. MiRAFRA PHiLippiNENsis, Wardlaw-Ramsay ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 605 (1890). 



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63. Caprimulgus MANiLLENsis, O.-R. Gray; Hartert, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 544 (1892). 



Mr. Hartert has followed Lord Tweeddale in considering 

 the bird from Celebes identical with the above-named species 

 from the Philippines; this is clearly a mistake. Lord 

 Tweeddale believed that the type specimens of C. maniUensis 

 in the British Museum were not fully adult, the outer pair 

 of rectrices having only the terminal portion of the inner 

 web white ; but this character is not dependent on age, every 

 specimen from the Philippines being perfectly similar in this 

 respect — in none is the terminal portion of the outer Aveb 

 white. How the bird from Celebes came to be identified 

 with C. maniUensis, G. R. Gray, by both Lord Tweeddale and 



