412 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



''Adult male. Much smaller than 8. steerii. Head, back, and sca- 

 pulars purple somewhat mottled with brown; white nuchal collar very 

 narrow and ill-defined ; purple of back gradually changing into brown on 

 rump ; tips of scapulars black ; upper tail-coverts and tail bright chestnut ; 

 upper wing-coverts black; tertiaries barred across both webs with pure 

 white ; three secondaries with lilac spot on outer webs ; tips of secondaries 

 and tertiaries black ; primaries blackish brown ; chin, throat, sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, and lores pure black; breast, abdomen, and flanks lilac, 

 deeper on upper breast, lighter on abdomen; thighs black, the feathers 

 tipped with brown; under tail-coverts light buff; axillars white; under 

 wing-coverts black; bend of wing white. 



"Female like male except that the lilac of under surface is replaced by 

 white. Bill, legs, feet, nails, and eyes exactly as in S. sterii and the 

 young show the same plumage changes as in that species. 



"Average measurements from five males : Length, 153 ; wing, 78 ; tail, 

 62; culmen, 22; tarsus, 20." (Bourns and Worcester.) 



"Habits exactly like those of the preceding species ; abundant in Samar 

 but irregularly distributed/' (Bourns and Worcester ^fS.) 



