1878.] ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 947 



41. Penelopides affinis. 



Penelopides affinis, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 824. n. 29. f. 1. 

 [Zamboanga, tf $ , March.] 



A new onter rectrix has the central band pure white, the central 

 bands on all the other rectrices being bright rufous. 



42. Lanius nasutus (70). 

 [Zamboanga, <$ £ , April.] 



Mr. Everett sends a nestling killed in April. 



43. Lanius lucionensis (72). 



[Zamboanga, <$ , April.] 



44. Graucalus striatus (73). 

 [Zamboanga, J , April : iris pale yellow ] 



Two examples marked J have uniform plumbeous breasts and 

 banded underparts and uropygium. One marked $ is banded 

 trom the chin downwards as well as on the uropygium. 



45. VOLVOCIVORA MINDANENSIS, Sp. n. 



[Zamboanga. ad, April : iris dark brown; bill and legs black, 

 brown f ^ br ° Wn " C ' 2 ' ApH1: iris dark ch °colate- 



Adultmale (a). Chin, cheeks, sides of head, space before the eves 

 a broad supercihum ear-coverts, forehead, throat, and upper breast 

 jet-black Remainder of breast, crown, and whole under surface of 

 body dark leaden-grey, paler near the vent and on the under tail- 

 coverts. Wing-coverts, nape, and axillaries a slightly lighter shade 

 of leaden-grey, palest on the uropygium and upper tail-coverts, 

 which are slightly mixed with white. Quills above black, with 

 faint grey margins. Sixth and remaining primaries tipped with greyish 

 while. Secondaries and tertiaries leaden-grey on their outerVebs. 

 tart ot inner webs of quills, seen from underneath, pale grey This 

 colour commences at the base of the first primary, occupying but a 

 small part of it, but is more extended on each succeeding quill and 

 reaches to the extremities of the inner quills. Rectrices jet-black • 

 outer pair with a large grey terminal mark, the same colour bein^ 



alSVlacr' 0Q ^^ P3ir - Carpal Cdge aDd ™S-"ninI 



tb^YT le {B) - ,™e same as the male, but the grey colour of 

 the whole plumage of a paler shade, the uropygium more albescent, 

 and no black about the head, throat, and breast. Carpal edge and 

 axillaries pale grey. & 



Young female (c). Like the adult, but the grey colour not so 

 pure lhe chin central part of the throat, a few scattered feathers 

 on the breast and flanks, the wing-lining, and axillaries finely banded 

 with white. Upper tail-coverts nearly pure white. Outer margins 

 ot some of the secondaries and carpal edge inclinin°- to white 



