8^6 THE MARdUIS OF TWEE0DALE ON [I>eC. 4, 



bri<^lit ultramarine in certain lights, the subapical spots of prima- 

 ries" united into a continuous band, the postmedian band broader, the 

 basal two fifths of interno-median interspace and the base ot the cell 

 white • secondaries with one or two white spots on the border ; 

 vertex' of head and collar bright carmine, not spotted with green as 

 in C' id<Boides; abdomen bright metallic bronze-coloured, not pale 

 metallic green : expanse, 6 2 inches, ? 2 inches 2 lines. 



Several examples. u » >„ 



Tliis species is smaller than O. idaoides, and somewhat more 

 nearly allied to an undescribed species which Mr. Moore proposes to 

 call C. argentata. 



LIMACODID^. 



48. Anzabe sinensis. 



Anzabe sinensis. Walker, Lep. Het. v. p. 1093 (1855). 



One example. 



HYPOPYRID^. 



49. SpIRAMA RECTIFASCIATA. 



Spiramia rectifasciata, Menetrics, Cat, Mus. Petrop. iii. 

 One example, a male. 



OPHIUSID^. 



50. Ophiusa fulvot^nia. 



Ophiusa fidvotcBnia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 272. n. 1710. 



One poor example. 



3. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines.— No. 

 III. On the Collection made by Mr. A. H. Everett in 

 the Island of Mindanao. By Arthur, INIarquis oi" 

 TwEEDDALE, F.R.S., President of the Society. 



[Received December 3, 1877.] 

 (Plates LXXXII.-LXXXV.) 



Visited by the French naturalist Sonnerat some 1 06 years ago, the 

 lar-e Philippine island of Mindanao has continued to be almost 

 a terra incognita to tlie zoologist ever since, while the little know- 

 led<^e of its animals we possessed was restricted to those inhabiting 

 a small portion of its southern and western limb or peninsula in the 

 neighbourliood of the principal Spanish settlement ot Zamboanga. 



Dr Steere and the naturalists of the 'Challenger' Expedition' 

 added some 40 species to the previously known total ot nineteen 

 Mindanao birds ; but their researches were likewise confined to the 

 country in the neighbourhood of Zamboanga. 



1 Dr.* Steere added some twenty-nine species, aud the 'ChaUenger' Expedi- 

 tion eleven. 



