BRACHYPTERYX. 539 



a 2 . Head, neck, and throat rusty brown, contrasting with the rest of the plumage 

 (females). 



6 1 . Crown lighter; chin and throat lighter poliogyna (p. 539) 



6 2 . Crown darker; chin and throat deeper in color; belly not paler than breast. 



c\ Smaller, tail shorter t brunneiceps (p. 539) 



<?. Larger, tail longer; abdomen washed with brownish gray. 



d\ Color much lighter mindanensis (p. 540) 



dr. Color much darker; russet of front of head intensified to almost a 

 burnt umber and not extending backward beyond the eyes. 



malindangensis (p. 540 ^ 



520. BRACHYPTERYX POLIOGYNA Grant. 

 GRANT'S SHORTWING. 



Brachypteryac poliogyna GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 4, 40; Ibis 

 (1895), 446, pi. 12, fig. 1; WHITEIIEAD, Ibis (1899), 216 (habits); 

 SHABPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 56; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 

 List (1906), 83. 



Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor) ; Mindoro (Whitehead) . 



Male. Most of the plumage dark slate-blue; middle of abdomen 

 washed with gray ; forehead, lores, ring around eye, jaw, and chin black ; 

 above each eye a concealed patch of soft silky white feathers; wings and 

 tail black, the feathers edged with slate-blue; bend of wing white. Iris 

 dark brown ; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 140 ; wing, 67 ; tail, 49 ; 

 culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 28; middle toe with 

 claw, 22. 



Female. Entire head, neck, chin, and throat umber or rusfy brown, 

 much darker on crown, lighter on chin and throat ; remainder of plumage 

 slaty blue, similar to the male, but lighter on the under parts and much 

 grayer on abdomen. Length, 127 ;. wing, 63 ; tail, 42 ; culmen from base, 

 15; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 30; middle toe with claw, 21. 



521. BRACHYPTERYX BRUNNEICEPS Grant, 

 NEGROS SHORTWING, 







Brachypteryx brunneiceps GRANT, Ibis (1896), 457; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 

 217 (habits); SHARPS, Hand-List (1903), 4, 56; MCGREGOR and WOR- 

 CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 83- 



Negros ( Whitehead ) . 



Diagnosis. "The Negros shortwing is closely allied to B. poliogyna, 

 which Mr. Whitehead discovered in the highlands of Lepanto, Luzon. 

 The males in fact, are, as one would expect, very much alike, but the 

 Negros bird has the top of the head and throat washed with black in- 

 stead of dark slate. Between the females the differences are much more 

 marked ; the crown of the head in E. "brunneiceps is much darker brown, 

 much less strongly washed with sienna on the forehead; the chin and 

 middle of the throat are much deeper in color, very little paler than the 

 sides; and the general tone of the under parts is darker slate-blue, the 

 belly being in no way paler than the breast. Adult male: Length, 127; 



