EUMYIAS. 477 



I have not seen a specimen of this flycatcher and no good description 

 of it is available.* The above description is compiled from that of C. 

 rnontis. By an oversight C. montis has been credited to Palawan by 

 Sharpe and by McGregor and Worcester; as the only specimen of fly- 

 catcher warbler from Palawan is the type of (7. xanthopygia, the former 

 species must be stricken from the list of Philippine birds. 



Genus EUMYIAS Cabanis, 1850. 



Bill broad and depressed ; width at nostril nearly twice the depth ; rictal 

 bristles moderate ; the wing exceeds the tail by less than length of tarsus ; 

 first primary more than one-half of second and less than one-half of third ; 

 fourth and fifth nearly equal and longest; tarsus twice the bill from 

 nostril. This genus is similar to Cyornis, but in Eumyias the sexes are 

 alike in colors and nearly the entire plumage is verditer-blue. 



Species. 



a 1 . Forehead and chin verditer-blue to base of bill. 



ft 1 . Feathers of lores with black bases, the tips blue; wing longer. 



panayensis (p. 477) 



ft 2 . Feathers of lores entirely black; wing shorter nigriloris (p. 478) 



a 2 . Forehead and chin black nigrimentalis (p. 478) 



442. EUMYIAS PANAYENSIS Sharpe. 

 PANAY VERDITER FLYCATCHER. 



Eumyias panayensis SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 



326; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906)," 76. 



Stoparola panayensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 440; Hand- 

 List (1901), 3, 286; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 110 (habits). 

 Negros (Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Panay (Steere). 



"Adult (type of species). General color above dull verditer-blue, 

 rather brighter on the forehead and over the eye, forming an indistinct 

 eyebrow; least wing-coverts resembling the back, the greater series and 

 the quills blackish brown, externally edged with dull verditer-blue; tail 

 feathers blackish, also edged with verditer on the outer web ; sides of face 

 dull verditer, as also the whole of the throat and breast, shading off into 

 white on the abdomen and flanks, the latter washed with blue; fore part 

 of cheeks and throat slightly varied with silvery tips to the feathers; 

 thighs and under wing- and tail-coverts buffy white. Bill black ; feet dark 

 brown. Length, 153; culmen, 14; wing, 75; tail, 62; tarsus, 18." 

 (Sharpe.) 



"The Panay verditer flycatcher seems to be a mountain form. A single 

 specimen was collected by the Steere Expedition on an expedition into 

 the mountains back of Sibulan, Negros." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



* Whiteiiead's diagnosis is as follows : "Similis G, montis sed rostro crassiore 

 et uropygio sulplmreo destinguenda." 

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