NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS. 13 



surface showing only faintly. Shafts of tail-feathers creamy white. 

 Under wing coverts fulvous brown tipped with white. Axillaries 

 white. Eyes pale yellow. Legs, feet and nails nearly white. Up- 

 per mandible brown, lower dirty green. Culmen, 1.05 inches. Wing, 

 5.46. Tail, 4.14. Tarsus, .61. 



Food, beetles. Native name "cow-cow." The single specimen ob- 

 tained is a fully adult male. Its rich and complicated markings are 

 very difficult to describe. 



We have named it in honor of Mr. Menage. 



8. Ceyx nigrirostris sp. nov. 



Adult male: General color of back and upper tail-coverts bright 

 cobalt blue, slightly lighter than in C. cyanipectus. Crown and nape 

 blue-black thickly spotted with bright cobalt, the spots being much 

 wider arid slightly lighter than in C. cyanipectus. Spots much larger 

 on hind neck, causing it to appear nearly uniform cobalt. 



Scapulars black, heavily washed with dark verditer blue. Wing- 

 coverts washed with verditer blue, each feather with a bright spot 

 or stripe of cobalt blue. Wing black, the outer webs of secondaries 

 heavily washed with light verditer blue. Tail black, the central 

 pair of feathers washed with verditer blue on both webs, the others 

 on outer webs only. Loral spot reddish buff. A spot of same color 

 on sides of neck. Chin and throat white, washed with buff. Fore- 

 neck, breast and abdomen uniform buff. Flanks, sides of breast 

 and a complete band across the breast dark verditer blue. A half 

 band of same color behind this. Under tail-coverts buff, the larger 

 ones tipped with verditer blue. Under wing coverts like the breast, 

 with a spot of verditer blue at end. Basal portion of inner webs 

 of primaries and secondaries washed with pale buff. Bill black. 

 Average measurements from ten males: Culmen, 1.42 inches. Tar- 

 sus, .34 Wing, 2.22. Tail, .88. Length of a single male measured 

 in the flesh, 6. 50. Female like male, but has only a half band of 

 verditer blue across the breast, this being more imperfect than in 

 C. cyanipectus. Average measurements from three females: Cul- 

 men, 1.45 inches. Tarsus, .33. Wing, 2.34. Tail, .95. Length of 

 single female measured in the flesh, 5.63 inches. 



A well marked species easily distinguished from C. cyanipectus its 

 nearest ally, by the heavier markings on crown and nape, by its 

 black bill and by the entirely different color of its under surface. 

 Like the former species, it is strictly confined to the banks of fresh 

 water streams and it is usually found in the woods. 



Habitat: Panay, Negros, Cebu. 



