1877.] the ornithology of the philippines. 827 



38. AIacronus striaticeps. 



Macronus striaticeps, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 331. 

 [Surigao, J, June. Iris white ; bill blackish ; legs purple-grey.] 



39. IXUS GOIAVIER (99). 



[Surigao, c? $ , May. Iris rich dark brown ; bill, legs, feet, and 

 nails black ; Placer, c? , July.] 



40. POLIOLOPHUS urostictus (101). 

 Poliolophus urostictus (Salvadori), Sharpe, t.c. p. 334. 

 [Surigao, 6, May. Orbital ring leuiou-yellow. a. $, May. 



Iris dark brown ; orbital ring yellow ; bill bla'ck ; legs dark grey.] 



By the words "orbital ring" Mr. Everett probably means the 

 nude eye-wattle and skin surrounding the eye. Sexes alike. 



41. Hypsipetes philippinensis (102). 

 [Butuan, S 2 , May.] 



Not separable from Luzon, Zebu, and Guimaras examples. It is 

 not, as might have been expected, H. rufgularis — a representative 

 species which occurs at Pasanauca (South-west Mindanao). 



42. Criniger everetti. (Plate LXXXIV.) 



Criniger everetti, Tweeddale, Arm. & Mag. N. II. ser. 4, vol. xx. 

 p. 535 (December I, 1877). 



c? $ . Above almost golden-yellow brown. Feathers of forehead, 

 vertex, and occiput sublanceolate, brown, margined with golden 

 yellow. Lores yellow. Feathers at base of mandible and cheeks 

 yellow-tipped. Throat, neck, and upper breast brownish ochreous- 

 yellow. Chin, lower breast, abdomen, ventral region, axillaries, 

 under tail- and wing-coverts sulphur-yellow. Inner webs of pri- 

 maries brown. Exposed surface of all the quills and the wing- 

 coverts like back. Inner margin of inner webs of quills pale yellow. 

 Upper surface of rectrices like that of quills. Under surface pale 

 brown, washed with yellow ; inner webs margined with pure yellow. 

 Shafts of quills and rectrices ruddy brown above ; of quills under- 

 neath yellow at base and brown towards the end ; of rectrices bright 

 yellow throughout. 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



in- in. in. in. 



[Surigao, S , May. Iris dark burnt sienna-brown ; bill black, 

 mandible greyish ; legs grey ; claws dark grey. b. $ , May. Iris 

 dark sienna-brown.] 



Mr. Everett has sent a series of thirteen specimens of this distinct 

 species of Criniger. It is readily to be distinguished by its ochreous- 

 brown throat and upper breast. The nuchal hairs are present. The 

 dimensions of the adult females appear to be less than those of the 



