192 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS 
Galgulus philippensis, Kittlitz, mot. propr. Kupfert. p. 8, pl. 12. fig. 2, Philippines” (1832). 
Hypsipetes philippensis, Strick]. mot. propr. Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 413, “ Manilla” (1844) ; 
y. Martens, tom. cit. no. 55. 
Philedon gularis, Cuv. Mus. Paris; Pucheran, Archives du Mus. vii. p. 344, pl. 18, “China? ;” 
Gray, Hand-list, no. 3992. 
Hab. Guimaras, Luzon, Zebu (Meyer). 
The sexes, as determined by Dr. Meyer, do not differ. In the Hand-list, no. 3917, this 
species is classed along with Microscelis amaurotis under the Pycnonotine, while Hypsi- 
petes m‘clellandii is included in the Phyllornithine. It is difficult to discern in what 
respect Microscelis differs from Hypsipetes; but anyhow this Philippine species is 
nothing more than a representative form of H. m‘clellandit. 
Montbeillard’s type was obtained in the Philippines by Sonnerat. Cuvier’s is said to 
have been brought from China by Dussumier (October, 1820), fide Pucheran, J.c. The 
species is not included in Swinhoe’s list of the birds of China (P.Z.S. 1871). It has 
received the same specific title three times over, each author believing the individual 
before him to be undescribed. 
Pucheran’s plate (/.c.) represents the top of the head rufous, whereas it is dark 
cinereous; and the plate on the whole is an indifferent representation of the Philippine 
bird. 
SAXICOLID. 
Monricota, Boie. 
103, MonrTICOLA SOLITARIUS. 
Turdus solitarius, L. S, Miller, N.S. Suppl. p. 142, no. 46 (1776). 
Monticola eremita (Gm.), v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 9, no. 18. 
Monticola manillensis (Gm.), v. Martens, tom. cit. p. 10, no. 19; conf. Sharpe & Dresser, Birds 
of Europe, Append.; Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 63; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, 
p- 101. 
Hab. Luzon, January ; Guimaras, March (Meyer); Negros, March (L. C. Layard). 
One Guimaras individual (fide Meyer) is in perfect unspotted blue and rufous 
plumage. Another, also a male by the label, is in blue and rufous plumage, but 
has the occiput sullied by brown feathers, some of the breast-feathers edged 
with albescent and some of the rufous abdominal plumage edged with blue. ‘The 
Luzon bird is generally rufous and blue, but with many of the feathers edged with 
albescent or brown, noted a male on the label. The dimensions of all three agree 
with examples from Japan. 
