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1 . Tanygnathus luzonensis (3). 



[P. Princesa, <5, January 1878.] 



Not separable from all other Philippine examples. 



2. BUTASTUR INDICUS (20). 



[P. Princesa, tf (?), November 28, 1877 : iris bright yellow; cere 

 light wax-yellow ; bill and nails black ; legs and feet dull yellow.] 



3. Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus. 



Chrysocolaptes "erythrocephalus, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. 

 i. p. 315. no. 13, t. xlvi. f. 1. 



[P. Princesa, 3, December 2, 1877: iris crimson; bill pale 

 yellow tinged with green ; feet and claws grey-green. 2 • No- 

 vember 27 : iris crimson ; bill pale yellow tinged with green ; feet 

 and claws greyish green.] 



The male example is in full adult plumage. That of the female 

 (hitherto undescribed) resembles the male in all respects excepting 

 the crown of the head and the crest, the feathers of which are ruddy 

 brown, each being tipped with a pale rusty-yellow drop or spot. 

 The cheeks, chin, and throat are washed with dilute crimson, not 

 intense as in the male. 



4. Tiga everetti. (Plate XXXVII.) 



Tiga javanensis (Ljungh.), Sharpe, t.c. p. 315. no. 14? 



Three examples, two of the adult male and one of the adult 

 female, were obtained near Puerto Princesa by Mr. Everett. They 

 probably belong to the species doubtfully identified by Mr. Sharpe 

 (I. c.) with T. javanensis. From this species, as well as from all the 

 other species of the genus known to me, the present bird differs in 

 the female having the head and crest uniform dark brown, the latter 

 being broadly terminated with crimson. The lower part of the throat 

 and the upper breast are uniform buffy brown, and not squamate. 



Male. Forehead, crown and crest, uropygium, and upper tail- 

 coverts crimson. Many of the dorsal plumes washed with crimson. 

 Lores buffy brown. Space behind the eyes creamy white, each 

 feather narrowly margined with pale brown. A patch commencing 

 below the posterior angle of the eye and including the ear-coverts 

 dark brown, this colour being continued as a narrow band round 

 the occiput. Space below the eye buffy cream-colour, which is 

 continued as a narrow line on the cheek, and expands into a broad 

 stripe down the sides of the neck. A brown stripe commencing 

 at angle of mouth and descending down the sides of the neck ; a 

 few crimson feathers on the inner edge of this stripe. Chin and 

 upper throat buffy cream-colour, many of the feathers tipped dark 

 brown. Lower throat and crop uniform buffy brown. Breast- 

 feathers pale yellow, very narrowly margined and boldly centred 

 with dark brown ; within the brown centres a pale yellow stripe 

 of varying dimensions. Abdominal and ventral feathers and the 

 under tail-coverts pale yellow, with generally two cross bands of 



