SPECIES PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED. 51 



lected by Mr. Everett in southern Leyte and typical L. apicalis 

 from Mindanao and provisionally identified them with the latter 

 species pending farther investigation. 



The differences between the Samar and Mindanao birds are: First, 

 that the red mark on crown of Samar birds is distinctly narrower than 

 in those from Mindanao and tapers sharply to a point on the nape 

 instead of spreading out and ending broadly. 



Second, the feathers of the back are barely tinged with golden, not 

 one of our specimens showing anything like the amount of color 

 exhibited by Mindanao birds. 



The Samar and Mindanao birds can be readily separated by the 

 head markings alone and there is far more difference between them 

 than between other species recognized by Salvador}, such, for in- 

 stance, as Prioniturus discurus (Vieill. ) and Prioniturus suluensis 

 Salvad. 



Xantholaema intermedia Shelley. 



Xantholaema intermedia Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 97 (1891). 

 We note certain plumage difference between the Cebu, Negros and 

 Tablas birds. The Negros birds best agree with Shelley's descrip- 

 tion. Tablas birds also agree with the description in having feath- 

 ers of back without lighter edges, but they have the black stripe 

 bordering red of throat washed with olive green instead of olive grey. 

 The Cebu birds, which were obtained in June, have light edgings 

 to feathers of upper surface, show more yellow in the spots above 

 and below eye than do birds from Negros and Talbas, and have 

 stripe between eye and throat almost pure black, sometimes faintly 

 washed with olive grey. They also differ, in that the black of hind 

 crown and nape is much less heavily washed with olive grey. 



The Philippine representatives of the Genus lyngipicus. 



Much confusion still exists as to the Philippine representatives of 

 this genus, witness Hargitt's recording I. maculatus (Scop.) from 

 Luzon (!). The type of this species was obtained by Sonnerat at 

 Antique ("Antigua") in north Panay. 



Lord Walden (P. Z. S. ix. p. 148, 1875) united the Luzon, Panay 

 and Mindanao birds on the supposition that the three islands possessed 

 but one species. This supposition he afterwards had occasion to 

 modify when he obtained some material on which to work. 



