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and sides slightly washed with lilac ; sides of head vinaceous-buff, slightly 

 washed with violet; a blue line under eye; alula, primary-coverts, and 

 primaries mostly black, some, of the feathers narrowly edged with blue ; 

 secondaries and secondary-coverts mostly blue; rectrices blue, each feather 

 with a large black mark which occupies much of the inner web and part 

 of the outer web. A male from Puerto Princesa, Palawan, measures: 

 Length, 127; wing, 75; tail, 42; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 

 10; tarsus, 17. 



Adult female. Like the male, but with no black line over eye and ear- 

 coverts, although there is an indication of the line. Wing, 72 ; tail, 41 ; 

 culmen from base, 15.5; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 15. 



"Eye straw-yellow ; bill vermilion ; orbital skin gray ; legs light brown." 

 (Whitehead.) 



600. CALLISITTA CENOCHLAMYS (Sharpe). 

 LOWLAND NUTHATCH. 



Dendrophila oenochlamys SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 

 1, 338, pi. 53, fig. 3; Hand-List (1903), 4, 351; WHITEHEAD, Ibis 

 ( 1 899 ) , 227 ( distribution ) . 



Sitla cenochlamys GADOW, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 359. 



Callisitta cenochlamys McGREGOB and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1900), 94 

 (error in locality list). 



Cebu (Everett, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Guimaras (Steere) ; Luzon 

 (Whitehead, McGregor)', Negros (Whitehead, Celestino) ; Panay (Steere Exp., 

 Bourns & Worcester). 



Adult male. A small white spot on lower part of lores; very similar 

 to Callisilta palawana, but slightly darker blue above, bases of mantle 

 feathers vinaceous-buff forming an ill-defined patch ; under parts slightly 

 darker than in C. palawana and more strongly washed with lilac; ear- 

 coverts washed with blue. A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, meas- 

 ures: Length, 127; wing, 75; tail, 41; culmen from base, 16; bill from 

 nostril, 11; tarsus, 17. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but lacking the black line over eye 

 and auriculars. 



601. CALLISITTA MESOLEUCA (Grant). 



HIGHLAND NUTHATCH. 



Dendrophila mesoleuca GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. (1894), 3, 49; Ibis 

 (1895), 450, pi. 4, fig. 2; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 227 (habits, 

 plumage); SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 351. 



Callisitta mesoleuca MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 94. 



Ta-M, Benguet. 



Luzon ( Whitchead, McGregor, Worcester, Mearns, Bartsch) . 



Adult male. A small white spot on lower part of lores; middle of 

 mantle with the bases of feathers pale vinaceous-buff to whitish, forming 

 a patch; under parts pale buff with no lilac wash; throat and chin very 



