500 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. 



a 1 . Mantle and back blue. 

 ft 1 . Chin and throat black. 



o*. Crown and nape cobalt; mantle and back navy-blue.... cyanogastra (p. 500) 

 c 2 . Crown, mantle, and back bright turquoise-blue (male). 



tweeddali (p. 502) 



&*. Chin and throat and nearly the entire plumage dull verditer-blue ( female i. 



tweeddali (p. 502) 



[ melanochlamys ( p. 501 ) 

 a 1 . Mantle and back velvety black j 



471. IRENA CYANOGASTRA Vigors. 

 LTTZON FAIRY BLUEBIRD. 



Jrena cyanogastra VIGORS, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97; SHARPS, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus. (1877), 3, 266; GI&NT, Ibis (1896), 116; WHITEHEAD, Ibis 

 (1899), 216 (habits). 

 Irena cyanogaster SHABPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 308; MCGREGOR and WOB- 



CESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 79. 

 Luzon (Meyer, Mollendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino). 



Male. Forehead, lores, a wide band over eye, entire sides of head and 

 neck, chin, throat, and fore breast velvety black; rest of under parts 

 deep blue; tail-coverts tipped with cobalt and the black bases of feathers 

 showing through the blue to some extent; crown and nape bright cobalt; 

 mantle, back, and rump deep blue, the black bases showing through to 

 some extent as on the under parts ; upper tail-coverts tipped with cobalt ; 

 wings black; lesser coverts tipped with dark blue; median and greater 

 coverts with wide tips of cobalt, forming two bands; alula-feathers and 

 primary-coverts narrowly edged with dark blue; inner secondaries broadly 

 edged with cobalt; rectrices black below; above, outermost pair all black, 

 the middle pair all blue, the others blue on outer webs. Bill, legs, and 

 nails black. Length, about 260; wing, 135; tail, 112; culmen from base, 

 30; bill from nostril, 21; tarsus, 21. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the black on head and 

 throat duller and extending for a less distance on the breast; blue of 

 under parts slightly lighter. Wing, 135; tail, 113; culmen from base, 

 27; bill from nostril, 19; tarsus, 18. 



472. IRENA ELL>E Steere. 

 ELLA'S FAIRY BLUEBIRD, 



Irena ellce STEERE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 18; Ibis 

 (1891), 313 (fig.), pi. 8; SHABPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 309; WHITE- 

 HEAD, Ibis (1899), 216 (habits) ; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 79. 

 Leyte (Steere Exp.) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead). 



