114 ON A NEW PHILIPPINE BIRD. [Jail. 16, 



46. Ortygometra cinerea (172). 

 [Dinagat, £ , June : iris crimson.] 



47. Hypotjenidia torciuata (177). 

 [Dinagat, $ , June.] 



48. Butorides javanica (197). 



[a. Dinagat, $ ; b. Nipah, J 5 , July : ins bright yellow ; legs 

 bright chrome-yellow.] 



No date on label of Dinagat example, but killed in June. 



49. Dysporus sula (214). 



[Dinagat, S , June : iris white; feet light leaden-green ; bill 

 whitish green.] 



In full white and rich brown plumage. Wing 15 - 30, tail 10 # 00, 

 culmen 3 - 90, tarsus 1*60. 



11. On a new Philippine Genus and Species of Bird. By 

 Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S., President of 

 the Society. 



[Keceived December 12, 1877.] 



(Plate IX.) 



Until Dr. Steere some three years ago discovered in the island of 

 Basilan two species 1 belonging to the Timeliida, this natural family, 

 so characteristic of the Indian region, was supposed to be unrepre- 

 sented in the Philippines. Since then Mr. Everett has discovered 

 a third species 2 in the island of Dinagat, and a fourth, the subject 

 of this note, in the island of Negros. This last bird is so anomalous 

 in its structure that I propose to constitute it the type of a new genus, 



Dasycrotapha 3 . 



Base of maxilla densely clothed with short feathers, space behind 

 the eye naked. Bill about the length of head, and formed as in 

 JSIixornis. Wing lengthened, longer than tail, first primary half the 

 length of the second, which is a fifth shorter than the third, third a 

 little shorter than the fourth, which is equal to fifth and sixth. Tail 

 moderate and square. Tarsus strong ; hallux with claw stout 

 and long ; digits short, slender ; outer a little shorter than inner. 



Dasycrotapha speciosa, sp. nov. (Plate IX.). 



Head crested ; forehead with dense short plumes covering the 

 base of the maxilla ; circle round the eye, whole space before the eye, 

 tuft on the side of the base of mandible, chin and uppermost 



1 Macronus striaticeps, Sharpe, and Bendrohiastes basilanica, Sharpe. 



2 Mixornis capitalis, Tweeddale. 



s Saavit, villosvs, et Kp6ra<poi, tempora eapitis. 



