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examples possess, in common with d. frenata 2, a yellow superciliary stripe, but 
it is much paler in tint. 
A, jugularis differs from A. flammaaillaris (Blyth)' in wanting the deep maroon 
pectoral band and the flame-coloured axillaries of the Burmese species; from 4. 
pectoralis (Horst.), from which it is otherwise difficult to be distinguished, in wanting 
the steel-blue frontal patch. 
The examples of the female agree in all respects with Brisson’s description of his 
Certhia philippensis (no. 4), excepting that he omits to mention the pale supercilium. 
The dimensions of the bill, one inch from the gape, given by Brisson are too large for 
NV. sperata (L.) (cf. Walden, tom. cit. p. 28). 
Le Somimanga de Visle de Lugon, Montbeillard, Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 496. Certhia 
manillensis, Gm. (S. N. 1. p. 471, no. 32, 1788, ex Montbeillard; Walden, Ibis, 1870, 
p- 49), is probably Nectarinia insignis, Jard., from the Malay Islands, and not a Philip- 
pine species (cf. Walden, /. ¢.). 
CERTHIIDZ. 
RuHABpornis, Reichenbach. 
124, * RHABDORNIS MYSTACALIS. 
Meliphaga mystacalis, Temm. Pl. Col. 335. f. 2, “ environs de Manille” (1825). 
Climacteris strioluta, Kittlitz, Kupft. p. 5, pl. 6. £. 2, “ Luzon” (1832). 
Hab, Luzon (Meyer). 
CORVIDA. 
CoRVIN2. 
Corvus, Linnzeus. 
125. * CorvUS PHILIPPINUS. 
Corvus philippinus, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxvii. p. 830, “ Philippines” (1853) ; Notes Orn. Coll. 
Delattre, p.8; G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 6207. 
? Corvus brevipennis, Schlegel, Bijdr. Dierk. pt. 8, p. 9, pl. 1. fig. 8, “ Philippines” (1859) ; Mas. 
Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 22. 
Hab. Luzon, April; Negros, March ; Cujo, December (Meyer). 
Dr. Meyer obtained two examples (¢, 2) of this genus in Negros, one ( %) in Luzon, 
and one (2) in the island of Cujo. All the four are in perfect and identical plumage. 
Head, nape, and under plumage black ; primaries black, washed with green; remainder 
‘A. rhizophore, Swinh., differs from A. flammavillaris in possessing a steel-blue frontal patch and in having 
a dark band below the maroon. The Penang specimen alluded to (P.Z.S. 1871, p, 349, no. 86) is probably 
A. pectoralis ; but I have observed a tendency in some species, in A. zenobia and A. frenata for instance, to 
develop a frontal patch. 
