758 THE MARdUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [Nov, 20, 



13. Alcedo bengalensis (38). 

 [Cebu, male, March.] 



14. Entomobia gularis (44). 



15. Satjropatis chloris (47). 



[Cebu, male, March. Iris brown, bill black, feet dark brown.] 



16. Xanthol^ma rosea (51). 



[Cebu, male, April. Iris hazel-brown, bill black, legs and feet 

 coral-red.] 



Ideniical with Javan, Sumatvan (Lampong), and Negros indivi- 

 duals. Two examples, marked female by Mr. Everett, have many 

 of the throat-feathers yellow, tipped with red. They are probably 

 immature birds. This species is but a developed form of X. heema- 

 cephala, the only distinction between the two being that the yellow 

 eye-patches and the yellow throat of that species are blood-red in 

 X. rosea. Their distribution is curious ; for while X. hcemacephala 

 occurs throughout the continent of India and the Indo-Chinese 

 peninsula, and on the Philippine island of Luzon, X. rosea is re- 

 stricted to Java and the two Philippine islands of Negros and Cebu, 

 while Sumatra, again, is inhabited hy both species. 



17. Macropteryx comatus (52). 

 [Cebu, female, March.] 



18. Centrococcyx viridis (64). 



[Cebu, female, April, " pairing." Iris crimson.] 



19. Lanius nastjtus (70). 



[Cebu, female, March, " breeding." Iris brown, bill and legs 

 black.] 



A numerous series of the Philippine black -headed Shrike in full 

 dress, obtained in Cebu by Mr. Everett, together with my Luzon 

 series, enables me, after comparison made with Lanius niffriceps (as 

 restricted /. c.) of India, to assert the specific identity of the two 

 species. The generality of the Philippine birds have the uropygium 

 of a paler, more tawny ferruginous hue than Bengal (Rognathpoor) 

 and Goomsoor examples ; the grey tint descends lower down the 

 back ; and the ferruginous colouring of the flanks and under tail- 

 coverts is of a paler, more dilute, shade. Still one Cebu individual 

 is not to be distinguished from an adult Bengal individual in this or 

 any other respect. Philippine birds exceed somewhat in dimensions. 

 Adult Tonghoo birds belong more nearly to L. tricolor ; but I have 

 not as yet met with either Pegu, Assam, or Darjeeling examples in 

 which the deep uniform ferruginous dorsal colouring of L. tricolor 

 runs up and joins the black of the nape, as in Nipaul individuals. 



The examples of females marked "breeding" by Mr. Everett 

 have the head and nape dark ashy brown, rather than black. 



