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28. Hypothymis azurea (85). 



29. HiRUNDO JAVANICA. 



Hirundo javanica, Sparrman, Mus. Carls, t, 100. 



[Cebu, male, April.] 

 New to the Philippines. 



30. Broderipus acrorhynchus (90). 



Oriolus acrorhynchus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 97- 

 Oriolus chinensis, Linn., apud Sharpe, B. M. Cat. Birds, iii. 

 p. 203. no. 12, nee Linn. 



Mr. Sharpe has recently (/. c.) adopted the Linnean title chinensis 

 for this purely Philippine species, for the reason that that title is 

 " undoubtedly referable to the Oriole of the Phihppines" (/. c. p. 197, 

 note). Linnaeus gave the name to Brisson's Loriot de la Cochinchine 

 (Orn. ii. p. 326); and Brisson states that the subjects of his 

 description were brought toRe'aumur by Poivre from Cochin China. 

 Judging from the description, also, Brisson's bird could not have 

 belonged to the Philippine species ; for he describes it as possessing 

 a yellow alar speculum, which the continental form has, and the 

 Phihppine bird lacks. After saying that the wing-feathers are black, 

 Brisson adds " quelques-unes des moyennes sont termine'es par une 

 petite tache jaunatre." It is therefore not necessary to adopt so 

 inappropriate a title as chinensis for the Philippine Oriole ; and the 

 name O. diffusus, Sbarpe {I. c), for the continental species must be 

 suppressed (cf. Walden, Blyth, B. Burma, no. 483). M. Oustalet 

 (Ois. de la Chine, p. 132) correctly identified the Chinese Broderipus 

 with the Brissonian species, and adopted the Brissonian title of 

 cochinsinensis, but afterwards somewhat hastily accepted Mr. Sharpe's 

 view, and placed that title in the list of errata and addenda. 



31. Oriolus assimilis, n. s. (Plate LXXVI.) 



[Cebu, male, March. Iris crimson, bill dull burnt-sienna brown, 

 legs dark lead-grey, nails black.] 



Male. Above and under tail-coverts dark greenish yellow ; space 

 before the eye, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat, and breast dark 

 grey, the breast being tinged with greenish yellow ; abdomen, flanks, 

 and ventral region grey or white, with broad almost black mesial 

 bands ; axillaries, under-surface of quills, and under wing-coverts 

 grey ; all the quills and major coverts above very dark grey, almost 

 black, each washed with a pale grey on the outer webs, the wing, 

 when closed, appearing dark grey. Tertiaries nearest the body dis- 

 tinctly tinged with greenish yellow. Minor wing-coverts like the 

 back. All the rectrices above dark iron-grey, almost black. Outer 

 pair with a pure yellow small terminal spot or mark at the apex of 

 the inner web ; all the others with slight indications of a terminal 

 yellow margin. 



Wing 4-87, tail 4-12, tarsus 0-88, culmen 1-2.). 



A representative form of O. steerii, ex Negros. Mr. Sharpe, who 



