480 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



a 2 . Throat and breast gray; belly and rest of under parts barred with black and 

 white. 



6 1 . Lores and space in front of eye deep black; under tail-coverts white, barred 



with black, the black bars extending right across the feathers and being 

 about two-thirds of the width of the white interspaces. 



panayensis (p. 483) 



6 2 . Lores and space in front of eye gray like the crown; under tail-coverts 



uniform white; or white with rather narrow wide-set black bars, which 

 are generally confined to the middle of the feathers kochi (p. 482) 



a 1 . Entire upper and under parts uniform gray. 



6 1 . Smaller; wing, 157mm.; tail, 119 mindorensis (p. 483) 



ft 2 . Larger; wing, 170 mm.; tail, 142 guillemardi (p. 481) 



a 2 . Upper and under parts not entirely uniform. 



6 1 . Throat and breast uniform gray; belly and under parts barred with black 



and white. 

 o*. Lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts barred with black. 



d l . Feathers of rump dark gray, barred with black and fringed with 

 whitish; general color of upper parts and breast darker gray; black 

 bars on the belly and flanks as wide as, or wider than, the white 

 interspaces, giving these parts a much blacker appearance; under 

 tail-coverts with wide bars of black and white, the former being 



rather wider striatus (p. 482) 



<Z 2 . Feathers of rump white, barred with black; general color of upper part- 

 and breast paler gray; black bars on the belly and Hanks much 

 narrower than the white interspaces, giving these parts a whiter 

 appearance; under tail-coverts white, with one or two narrow wide- 

 set black bars difficilis (p. 480) 



c 2 . Lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform gray like the back. 



cebuensis (p. 484) 



6*. Entire under parts barred with black to the throat; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts barred with black. 



c 1 . Under tail-coverts widely barred with black and white, the black bars 

 being as wide as the white interspaces; patch of feathers covering the 

 nostrils gray like the rest of the crown; general color of the throat and 

 breast gray, barred with black, contrasting with the black and white 

 belly ; black bars on the belly and under parts very wide, 



panayensis (p. 483) 



c 2 . Under tail-coverts either pure white, or white with some black bars; patch 

 of feathers covering the nostrils whitish; general color of throat and 

 breast white, barred with black like the rest of the under parts ; black- 

 bars on the belly and under parts narrower kochi (p. 482) 



445. ARTAMIDES DIFFICILIS (ITartert). 

 PALAWAN ARTAMIDES. 



Artamides sumatrensis SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 12 (part). 

 Oraucalus sumatrensis difficilis HABTEBT, Novit. Zool. (1895), 2, 470. 

 Artamides difficilis SHABPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 287. 

 Artamides dificilis McGREGOB and WORCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 76 (error). 



