948 MARQUIS OF TWEEDDAI.E ON THE [ NOT. 19, 



Dimensions : — 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 



in. in. in. in. 



cJ ad 4'62 4-0 0"88 0-88 



2 ad 4-50 4-0 0-88 0-88 



$ juv 4-48 388 0'83 0-87 



A representative form of V. morio ex Celebes, but altogether of a 

 darker shade of grey, with a black forehead, and with the inner 

 margins of the quills grey, and not pure white. 



46. Lalage DOMINICA (76). 

 [Zamboanga, 2 , April.] 



47. DlCRURUS STRIATUS. 



Bicrurus striatus, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 045.110. 20. 

 [Zamboanga, $ , March : iris crimson.] 



48. Leucocerca nigritorciuis (83). 

 [Zamboanga, 5 , April.] 



49. Cyornis philippinensis (84 partim). 



Cyornis philippinensis, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 82"). 

 [Zamboanga, $ , March.] 



50. Hypothymis azurea (85). 



[Zamboanga, $ , May ; maxilla black, mandible light blue ; legs 

 dark grey slate ; interior of gape yellow.] 



51. Broderipus acrorhynchus (90). 

 [Zamboanga.] 



52. Erythropitta erythrogastra (94). 



[Zamboanga, d $ , March, April, May.] 



These examples all belong to E. erythrogastra, and not to the 

 Balabac race named B. propinquus by Mr. Sharpe (Tr. L. S. (2) 

 Zool. i. p. 330). The young Dumalon (Mindanao) example ob- 

 tained by Dr. Steere, and doubtfully identified with B. propinquus 

 by Mr. Sharpe (I. c), in all probability belongs to E. erythrogastra. 



An immature bird, killed in April near Zamboanga, is dirty 

 rufous brown above, with dashes of green ; rectrices blue ; wing- 

 feathers without a trace of blue ; under surface dirty white, 

 feathers margined with pale rufous brown ; some scarlet feathers on 

 the breast ; vent and under tail-coverts washed with brownish red. 

 The females differ in the scarlet colouring of the abdominal region 

 not being so intense and vivid, and in the throat not being so dark 

 brown, almost black. The blue colouring of the breast is not 

 exhibited until complete maturity, that part remaining green. In 

 fully mature birds of both sexes the green pectoral band is almost 

 entirely replaced by blue. 



