SPECIES PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED. 53 



Chrysocolaptes rufopunctatus Harg. 



Chrysocolaptes rufopunctatus Harg. Ibis, 1889, p. 231. 



Chrysocolaptes samarensis Steere, List B. & M. Steere Exped. p. 8 (1890). 



Another case in which Dr. Steere re-described a species already 

 known. 



Thriponax philippinensis Steere. 



Thriponax philippinensis Steere, List B. & M. Steere Exped. p. 8 (1890); id. 

 Ibis, 1891, p. 305. 



Dr. Steere's description of this species is so brief that we venture 

 to add to it somewhat. 



Adult male in breeding plumage. Forehead and crown to nape 

 brilliant scarlet. Elongated feathers of crown and nape with yel- 

 lowish white bases and shaft stripes of same color extending half 

 their length. A scarlet stripe from base of lower mandible to ear. 

 Lores, stripe under eye, auricular region, chin, throat and sides of 

 neck black, some of the feathers tipped with scarlet, others with 

 creamy white. Feathers of thighs buffy white with broad central 

 spots of black. Lower breast, abdomen, flanks, under wing- coverts, 

 axillaries, basal fifth of inner webs of secondaries and a narrow 

 stripe on rump creamy white. All other parts black, tips of pri- 

 maries and tail-feathers rusty. Feathers of fore-breast uniform 

 black except a few of those immediately bordering the white of the 

 breast which are tipped with that color. Many feathers of hind- 

 neck and interscapulars broadly tipped with scarlet but the latter 

 markings, as well as scarlet and white tips on feathers of sides of 

 face and throat, are very variable. 



Adult female. Like the male, but has forehead and crown pure 

 black and lacks the scarlet cheek patch. Few of the feathers of 

 head and neck are tipped with white and none are tipped with 

 scarlet. 



Sarcophanops steerii Sharpe. 

 Sarcophanops steerii Sharpe; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 482 (1888). 



There has been some difference of opinion between Dr. Steere and 

 Mr. A. Everett as to the color of the eyes of this interesting species. 

 Both were right and there was abundant room for still more diverg- 

 ence of opinion. The eyes of S. steerii are golden yellow, bright 

 green or a beautiful blue according to the way the light strikes 

 them. 



The locality "Mindoro" given for this species in Dr. Steere's list 

 is a misprint for Mindanao. No representative of the genus was 

 found by the Steere Expedition in Mindoro. 



