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An immature male is olive brown above, the feathers of head and 

 back with white shaft stripes. Tail fulvous brown the feathers 

 edged with rusty brown. Wing coverts like back. Quills fulvous 

 brown, their outer edges washed with light rufous brown. A line 

 of nearly black feathers with white shafts over eye. Ear-coverts 

 dark, with distinct white shaft lines. Feathers of upper throat 

 blackish with broad white shaft markings. Lower throat and breast 

 dark ashy, some of the feathers with ill-defined lighter shaft mark- 

 ings. Lower breast and abdomen nearly white, the feathers soft 

 and fluffy. Flanks ashy grey. Under wing-coverts axillaries, inner 

 webs of quills and under tail-coverts buffy white. 



Cyanomyias helenae Steere. 



Cyanomyais helenae Steere. List B. & M. Steere Exped. p. 16 (1890); id. Ibis, 

 1891, p. 311. 



We obtained a good series of specimens of this fine species and 

 are able to furnish a description of the adult female, which is dull 

 verditer blue above, much brighter on head. Forehead and line 

 over eye cobalt blue. Feathers of crest but slightly elongated. Tail 

 brownish black washed with verditer blue. Shafts of feathers 

 black. Wing coverts and outer edges of quils like back. Chin blu- 

 ish grey. Cheeks, ear-coverts, throat and upper breast azure blue, 

 brightest on cheeks. Abdomen and under tail-coverts white. Under 

 surface of tail dark brown. Shafts white. Under wing- coverts and 

 axillaries grey broadly tipped with white. Inner webs of quills 

 washed with white. Bend of wing washed with verditer blue. 



Four males measure 5.40 inches in length. Wing, 2.85. Tail, 

 2.90. Culmen, .61. Tarsus, .64. A female is larger measuring 6.06 

 inches in length. Wing, 2 86. Tail, 2.70. Culmen, .64. Tarsus, .67. 



Orthotomus castaneiceps Wald. 



Orthotomus castaneiceps Wald.; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 223 



(1883). 

 Orthotomus panayensis Steere, List B. & M. Steere Exped. p. 20 (1890); id. 



Ibis, 1891, p. 314. 



Dr. Steere has attempted to separate the Panay tailor bird from 

 that of Guimaras and Negros but after a most careful examination 

 of a large series of specimens from Panay, Negros and Masbate we 

 are compelled to say that there is not the slightest difference be- 

 tween the birds from the three islands. Their size is the same. 

 The wash of olive green on the back, on which Dr. Steere relied to 

 separate the Panay birds, is a variable character present in some 

 birds, absent in others shot at the same season. It occurs in birds 



