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middle toe with claw. 23. Iris brown; legs, feet, and nails pale flesh- 

 color; upper mandible black, lower nearly white." (Bourns and Wor- 

 cester MS.) 



Genus DASYCROTAPHA Tweeddale, 1878. 



"Base of maxilla densely clothed with short feathers, space behind the 

 eye naked; bill about the length of head, and formed as in Mixornis: 

 wing lengthened, longer than tail; first primary half the length of the 

 second, which is a fifth shorter than the third ; third a little shorter than 

 the fourth, which is equal to fifth and sixth; tail moderate and square; 

 tarsus strong ; hallux with claw stout and long ; digits short and slender ; 

 outer a little longer than inner." (Tweeddale.) 



504. DASYCROTAPHA SPECIOSA Tweeddale. 

 BEAUTIFUL EOTTOHTEMPLE. 



Dasycrotapha speciosa TWEEDDALE. Proc. Zbol. Soc. (1878), 114, pi. 9; 

 SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 574; Hand-List (1903), 4, 

 51; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 81. 



Negros (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) . 



Male. "Head crested; forehead with dense short plumes covering the 

 base of the maxilla; circle round the eye, whole space before the eye, 

 tuft on the side of the base of mandible, chin and uppermost part of 

 throat pure lemon-yellow; crown of the head black; post occipital plumes 

 yellow; nape yellowish green tipped with black; a lengthened tuft of 

 plumes springing from above the eye bright orange: a line immediately 

 below this tuft black; a tuft of stiff decomposed feathers spring n<r from 

 below the eye and extending over the ears white or grayish white; an 

 irregular band across the throat black; dorsal feathers gray with light 

 olive-green tips and white shafts; uropygium yellowish given; upper 

 tail-coverts the same, tinged with rufous; lower throat and upper breast 

 bright yellow, most of the feathers with black terminal drops; lower 

 breast and rest of under plumage duller yellow tinged with green on the 

 flanks; quills brown margined with yellowish olive-green, inner margin 

 of quills pale yellow; wing-coverts dull olive-green, carpal edge and wing- 

 lining yellow: tail dull rufous. 'Iris crimson; bill orange-yellow/ 

 (Everett.) Wing. 66; tail, 60: tarsus. 22; culmen, 19." (Tweeddale.} 



"Only three specimens of this rare bird were obtained by us. They 

 were all secured in the deep forest, where they were feeding among the 

 leaves of low trees. We feel quite confident that we saw I), speciosa in 

 Panay on one occasion, but the one individual observed escaped us. 

 Three specimens average as follows: Wiiur. (16; tail, 57; culmen, 17; 

 tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 16. Iris reddish brown; legs and feet 

 olive-yellow, nails nearly white: bill yellow.' 7 (Bourns and Worcrstrr 

 MS.) 



