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39. CORYDALLA LUGUBRIS (117). 



[Cebu, male, April. Iris brown, maxilla brown, mandible pale 

 ochreous, legs and feet ligbt ocbreous.] 



40. Parus elegans (118). 



[Cebu, male, April. Iris brown, bill dark, legs and feet lead- 

 blue.] 



Not separable from Luzon examples. 



41. Dendrophila (ENOCHLAMYS. 



Dendrophila cenochlamys, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 338 

 t. liii. f. 2 (1876). 



[Cebu, male and female, April. Iris orange-yellow, bill greenish 

 yellow]. 



The male example has all the rectrices broadly tipped with the 

 vinaceous colour of the breast. In the female the middle pair are 

 throughout blue, while the laterals only exhibit a vinaceous tinge at 

 their apices. 



42. Zosterops everetti, n. sp. 



[Cebu, male and female, April. Iris light yellow-brown, maxilla 

 blackish, mandible and legs pale grey]. 



Male and female. — Above oil-green, darker than in Z. palpehrosus, 

 and much darker than in Z. meyeri of Luzon. Narrow frontal band 

 and lores, chin, throat, under tail-coverts, and shoulder-edge bright 

 yellow. Below the eye a distinct black mark. Breast and flanks 

 pale but decided iron-grey. Mesial band of abdomen, extending 

 to vent, bright yellow. Kectrices above pale brown washed with oil- 

 green. 



Wings 2-06, tail 1-87, tarsus 0-70, culmen 0-50. 



Tliis s|iecies, closely allied to Z. lateralis, is to be distinguished 

 by its green rectrices. 



43. Prionochilus quadricolor, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. 

 fig. 2.) 



[Cebu, April. Iris dark brown ; legs, bill, and feet glossy black.] 



The sex is not stated on the label. 



Chin, throat, cheeks, sides of neck, breast, flanks, under wing- 

 coverts, axillaiies, abdomen and under tail-coverts pale greyish silky 

 white, the chin, cheeks, and axillaries being almost pure white. 

 Forehead, sides of head, vertex, and occiput, descending low down 

 the nape, dull black. Interscapulars and back black, broadly tipped 

 with cinnabar-red. Uropygium black with olive-yellow tips to the 

 feathers. Upper tail-coverts, rectrices, and wing-coverts rather 

 glossy bluish black. Quills dark blackish brown. 



"Wings 2-12, tail 1-25, tarsus Q-oO, culmen 0-37. 



This is one of the most important additions made by Mr. Everett 

 to the Phihppine fauna, adding, as it does, one of the hitherto missing 

 characteristic Malayan genera ; for, although Mr. Sharpe {t. c.) in- 



