484 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE 15IRDS. 



Male. Lores, nasal plum PS. liiu- around eye, jaw, and chin black; rest 

 of plumage gray with no bars; very similar to the male of A. striatus, 

 but feathers of uropygium not fringed with white. Iris pale yellow. 

 Wing, 160; tail, 118; culmen from base, 26; bill from nostril, 20; 

 tarsus, 23. 



Female. Uniform gray, similar to the male but no black about eye, 

 lores, etc. ; similar to female of A. guillemardi, but slightly larger. Wing, 

 160; tail, 120; culmen from base, 29; bill from nostril, 21; tarsus, 24. 



"The differences between A. guillemardi and A. mindorensis are very 

 slight. Sharpe, Ibis (1894), 254, states that the latter is lighter gray 

 in color than the former. On comparing specimens of these two species 

 we are unable to perceive the slightest difference so far as the general 

 color of the body is concerned. The feathers of the throat and crown in 

 the male of A. mindorensis are, however, lighter gray than in the male 

 A. guillemardi, so that the black markings on the side of the head stand 

 out more sharply. 



"We have a large series of birds from Tablas. In nearly all of them 

 the under wing-coverts are barred with black and white. This we consider 

 to be a sign of immaturity, however, and we do not regard them as specif- 

 ically distinct from the Mindoro birds, though their general color is 

 slightly darker, and the black head-marking less distinct." (Bourns and 

 Worcester MS.) 



A nest and one egg were taken in Mindoro on April 26, 1905. The 

 nest is composed of mosses, small leaves, lichens, and fine rootlets; the 

 outside is covered with cobwebs which serve to hold the materials together 

 and to fasten the nest to the fork in which it was built. The nest is about 

 115 mm. across the top and its outside depth is about 50. The ground- 

 color of the egg is light gray with a slightly greenish tinge; a heavy and 

 continuous wreath of spots and blotches encircles the shell near the plane 

 of its short diameter ; a few small spots are scattered about over the entire 

 surface; the deep shell-markings vary from pale to dark lavender; the 

 surface spots and blotches are reddish brown; measurements, 30.7 by 

 21 mm. 



451. ARTAMIDES CEBUENSIS Grant. 



CEBIT ARTAMIDES. 



Artamides cebuensis GRANT, Ibis (1898), 535; SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 

 3, 290; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 77. 



Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor). 



Male. Lores and line of feathers around eye black; general plumage 

 gray; similar to A. mindorensis, but chin and nasal plumes gray. Wing, 

 170; tail, 130; culmen from base, 31; bill from nostril, 23; tarsus, 27. 



Female. Upper parts, throat, and breast gray; abdomen and crissum 



