828 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [DcC. 4, 



males ; otherwise the sexes are alike. This species belongs to a genus 

 new to the Philippine area. 



43. COPSYCHUS MINDANENSIS (106). 



[Butuan, d juv., May.] 



Only differs from the adult male by having the breast dark grey, 

 each feather with a fulvous central mark. 



44. CiSTICOLA GRAYI. 



Cisticola grayi, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4. vol. ix. p. 40, " North 

 Celebes." 



[Surigao, cJ.May. Iris yellow-brown.] 



This skin is not to be distinguished from the type of C. grayi, and 

 may prove to be = C. semirufa, Cab., the description of which is, 

 however, too meagre for recognition. 



45. Orthotomus frontalis. 



Orthotomus frontalis, Sharpe\ Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 336 ; 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 112, t. 2. fig. 1. 



[Surigao, ,5, May. b. Butuan, 2 , May. Iris clay-brown ; bill 

 dark brown, mandible white ; legs light transparent brown.] 



46. Orthotomus nigriceps, sp. n. (Plate LXXXV.) 

 [Butuan, c?, May. Iris clay-brown; maxilla black; mandible 



white ; legs and feet pale brownish.] 



Forehead, vertex, occiput, nape, and ear-coverts very dark brown 

 or black. Space before the eye and a broad supercilium which passes 

 behind the eye white ; chin, cheeks, throat, and breast pale greyish 

 white, the bases of the feathers being dark iron-grey. Lower breast 

 tinged with yellow. Flanks, abdomen, under wing- and tail-coverts 

 yellow-olive. Back, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts pure olive- 

 green. All the wing-feathers brown, the quills being externally mar- 

 gined with yellowish olive-green, the minor and major coverts with 

 a paler yellow-olive. Thigh-coverts mixed pale rufous and olive- 

 green. Rectrices above dull rufous, with very narrow pale margins. 

 Underneath pale rufous, washed with light yellowish green. 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



1-70 1-70 0-85 0-60 



Allied to O. cinereiceps, but with a black head. 



47. CORYDALLA LUGUBRIS (117). 



[Surigao, 6 $. May, June; Placer, cJ, July.] 



After a careful comparison made between this Philippine race, C. 

 rufula of India, and C. malayensis from Malacca and Sumatra, it 

 appears to be an exactly intermediate form, C. rufula being the 

 palest and of an ochreous red, C. lugubris being darker and greyer 

 and C. malayensis being more reddish brown. Every individual of 

 my large series of this species is constant in its colouring. 

 I Compared by Mr. Sharpe. 



