1877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 769 



73. BUTORIDES JAVANICA (197). 



[Cebu March. Iris golden yellow, orbital and loral regions light 

 green, bill black, base of mandible yellowish, legs and feet dull green 

 nails grey-black.] ° ' 



74. Nycticorax manillensis (198). 



a;Z'^\ ^^1'' ^h- ^"' g«l'^^n-y^"o^v, bill brown, mandible 

 dirty yellow, legs light greenish-yellow, nails grey.] 



Ihe male of which the soft parts are described above is a youno 

 bird Above the plumage is rich dark brown, each feather centred 

 for Its entire length (as on the neck) or for its terminal half (as on the 

 back) with clear terruginous. Underneath the plumage has the same 

 character ; but the ferruginous colour is diluted, and on the breast 

 tawny The quil s are of the same rich dark chestnut-colour that 

 prevails m the adult. Chin and throat pure white. The crown of 

 the head is like the neck, and not black as in the adult. Many of 

 the frontal and coronal feathers have prolonged, twisted or partly 

 curled termmal naked shafts of a yellowish albescent colour and 

 over half an inch m length. This occurs in two specimens. 



An example (without a label) in almost full dress, has the fore- 

 head, crown and occipital crest black. The remainder of the upper 

 plumage and the exposed surfaces of the wings are rich dark chest- 

 nut-rufous, darkest on the mterscapular region. The chin and throat 

 pure white with a few feathers tipped and centred brown. The sides 

 of the head, the sides and front of the neck, upper breast, and flanks 

 pale rufous tawny with broad ruddy-brown margins. Lower breast 

 and abdonien white and tawny-white with the brown margins nar- 

 rower. Under tail-coverts white, some blotched with creamy rufous 

 Long axillaries pale pure rufous. Carpal edge pure white. Culmen 

 2-8/ inches, tarsus 375, wing 12-75. 



The long, pendent white nuchal plumes are absent, the black tips 

 ot which are said to be one of the characters which differentiate N. 

 manillensis from N. caledonicus. The differences between the two 

 species are otherwise well marked; but Professor Schlegel's opinion 

 firmation"''" * ^ crassirostris, ex Bonin Ins., requires cou- 



The bill of this Philippine example is thicker than in N. caledonicus, 

 (ad. ex Port Albany), measuring in altitude 1 inch as against 075. 



75. Dendrocygna vagans (203). 



[Cebu male March. Iris dark brown, bill shining black, legs 

 and feet dark slate-grey. b. Cebu, male, April.] ^ 



The example shot in March is in almost full plumage, the second- 

 aries being well developed. Most of the breast-feathers have one or 

 two pairs of brown spots. The second example, shot in April is of 

 smaller dimensions, the secondaries shortened, the breast-pluma-e 

 umiorm. '^ * 



