618 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [May 21, 



nating, the long, lax, and fluffy uropygial feathers being of a slightly 

 lighter shade of olive-green. Upper tail-coverts olive-green. Quills 

 light brown, margined with a brighter olive-green. Rectrices light 

 brown, edged with olive-green, and some with pallid yellowish apices. 

 Underneath pale brown, washed with very light yellowish green. 

 Shafts above brown, below yellowish white. 

 Dimensions : — 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



[P. Princesa, J, December 14, 1877 : iris deep rich burnt-sienna ; 

 bill blackish brown ; legs and feet purple-brown. 6 , November 28 : 

 iris chocolate : bill dark brown ; legs pale brown.] 



One example marked $ equals the 6 in its dimensions. 



Mr. Everett procured a good series of this short-footed Thrush, 

 At first sight it can be easily mistaken for B. plumosus (Blyth), of 

 which it is a representative form. It is to be distinguished by 

 its pale abdomen, which in B. plumosus is browner and nearly 

 uniform with the breast, by its pale greyish breast, by its yellow under 

 tail-coverts, which in B. plumosus are ochreous-brown, by its pale 

 yellow, and not ochreous, wing-lining and axillaries, and by the 

 cinereous or pearl-grey edgings and centres of the frontal plumes. 

 Nor is the green of the quills and rectrices nearly so developed. The 

 colouring of the abdominal plumage resembles that of Iole olivacea, 

 but is not so distinctly yellow. 



23. Brachypodius melanocephalus. 

 Lanius melanocephalus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 309. 



[P. Princesa, rf $ , January 1878 : iris violet-blue ; bill and legs 

 black.] 

 Undistinguishable from typical examples. 



24. Criniger frater. 



Criniger f rater, Sharpe, t. c. p. 334. no. 77. 



[P. Princesa, J, December 1, 1877: iris red-brown ; bill horn- 

 grey, darker on culmen. $ , December : iris red-brown ; bill dark 

 grey ; mandible whitish ; legs, feet, and nails pallid brown.] 



25. Criniger palawanensis, n. sp. 



Male and female. Chin, lower breast, abdomen, vent, under tail- 

 coverts, wing-lining, axillaries, and carpal edge bright yellow. Feathers 

 of the throat, cheeks, and upper breast of the same yellow, the centres 

 towards the apices being pale grey. These parts have thus a streaked 

 appearance. Sides of the breast and the flanks clouded with pale 

 brown ; a few of the nareal plumes bright yellow. Space before 

 the eye yellowish grey. Head, ear-coverts, and nape reddish brown, 

 the frontal and coronal plumes being sublanceolate and with pale 

 central streaks. Back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and uropygium 



