1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 695 



(= Gracula caudata, Cuv., apud Blyth), in the Philippines. Both 

 Jerdon and Blyth appear to have been misled into identifying 

 Franklin's bird with the Cuvieran type by some remarks of Lafres- 

 naye's (Mag. Zool. 1st series, Timaliu). Lafresnaye gave Frankhn's 

 diagnosis (P. Z.S. 1830-31, p. Il8)and wrote that 7'. c^«/a?-«« "nous 

 a paru etre le meme oiseau que celui intitule au Musee, Gracula cau- 

 data (Cuvier)." Lafresnaye described a bird in his collection and 

 identified it with the type in the Paris Museum (said to have been 

 obtained in Bengal by IJussurarer in October 1820, but having, when 

 Pucheran examined it, "Manilla" written on its label). And 

 Lat'resnaye's description {I. c), and certainly Pucheran's of the type 

 (already alluded to), will not apply to Franklin's bird. Blyth (Tbis, 

 1867, p. 6), in the behef that T. chatarcea, Franklin=G. caudata, 

 Cuvier, mentioned, on Pucheran's authority, that it was found in the 

 Philippines ; and I inadvertently gave Franklin's species a place in 

 my list of Philippine birds {t. c. no. 97) although I stated that 

 Indian authors seemed to have been somewhat hasty in identifying 

 T. chatarcea with G. caudata, Cuvier. T. chatarcea may, for the 

 present, be safely eliminated from our lists of the Philippine fauna. 



41. Megalurus ruficeps. (Plate LXXII.) 



Megalurus ruficeps, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. iv. vol. xx. 

 p. 94 (1877). 



5 . Lower surface white, faintly tinged with cream-colour on the 

 breast. Flanks pale earthy brown. Under tail-coverts pale dingy 

 isabelline rufous ; thigh-coverts of a more decided rufous. Space 

 before the eye and supercilium, passing well behind the eye, greyish 

 white. Forehead, head, and nape, pure bright uniform rufous. 

 Back olive-grey, each feather broadly centred by a longitudinal stripe 

 of brown. Uropygium and upper tail-coverts uniform olive-grey. 

 The base of the long and lax uropygial feathers pure dark grey, the 

 tips only being olive-grey. Rectrices above dull ruddy brown, ob- 

 soletely barred with narrow brown lines. Quills brown, externally 

 margined with ferruginous olive. Lesser wing-coverts olive-grey ; 

 greater tinged with ferruginous. 



Wing 275 inches, tail 5"25, tarsus 10, culmen 0"56. 



[Monte Alban. $ : light clay-brown ; bill brown, lower half 

 grey; legs and feet whitish.] 



42. Ixus goiavier (99). 



Monte Alban. a, <S : iris bright brown ; bill black ; legs dark 

 brown, b, S ■ bill, legs, and nails black, c, $ : bill and legs black ; 

 iris brown. 



San Mateo, d, $ : iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs dark grey, 

 almost black.] 



All Mr. Everett's specimens (a series of eight) of this species have 

 the ear-coverts dark brown, the only character apparently which 

 separates it from 7. analis. The plumage of the two sexes does not 

 differ. 



