INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 179 



where, instead, the misprint in the Ibis (I. c.) is adopted, and Mr. Blyth's original title 

 attributed to Hartlaub. 



PACHYCEPHALID^. 



Hylotekpe\ Cabanis. 



78. * HyLOTERPE PHILIPPINENSIS. (PI. XXXI. fig. 2.) 



Hyloterpe philyjpinensis, Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vol. x. p. 252, " Luzon " 

 (October 1, 1872). 



Hab. Luzon {Meyer). 



Dr. Meyer's researches in the Philippines have added an additional member of a 

 genus hitherto not known to be there represented. The small group of Pachycephaline 

 birds to which the title of Hyloterpe is restricted, is now known to contain six species. 

 They are entitled to subgeneric distinction. The sexes are, I believe, alike; and 

 they possess this further peculiarity, that they wear, in adult plumage, a sombre 

 garb recalling the adolescent and the female plumage of the true black-and-yellow 

 Fachycephalce. This Philippine species is a representative form of H. sulphuriventris, 

 Walden, ex Celebes. Above, it differs by its plumage being olive-green, and not brown, 

 and underneath by the yellow extending higher, and being much brighter. The bill 

 is likewise more powerful. Seen from above, E. i)hilippinensis is difficult to distinguish, 

 from H. fuhot'mcta, AVallace, ex Flores; while, in the same way, H. sulplmriventris 

 closely resembles //. griseiceps ex N. Guinea. Seen from below, however, the affinities 

 are reversed, the Flores Hyloterpe showing a great resemblance to that of Timor, H. 

 orpJieus (Jard.), and the Celebean and Philippine species but difiering slightly. 



PERICROCOTID^. 



Peeicrocotus, Boie. 



79. Peeicrocotus cineeeus. 



Pericrocotus cinereus, La Fresnaye, Rev. ZooL 1845, p. 94, " Lufon ; " Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. ix. ; 

 Swinlioe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 378, no. 315 : Scbrenck, Amuil. i. p. 381; Radde, Ost-Siberien, 



ii. p. 273. 

 Pericrocotus mo(lestus,Strickl.V.Z.S.l8i6, p. 102, "Malacca;" Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xix. 



p. 131. 



' Wiegm. Archiv f. jSTaturg. 1847, i. p. 321, type Hylocharis philomela, S. Muller. Boie (Isis, 1831, p. 546) 

 gave the title of Hylocharis to a section of the TrocMlida. But Mr. G. E. Gray, besides adopting the title 

 (Hand-list, i. p. 148) for a genus of that family, employs it again {torn. cit. p. 389) for the Pachycephaline genus 

 named by Dr. Cabanis Hyloterpe, and attributes it also to Boie, with the date 1827. Br. Cabanis (I. c), on the 

 other baud, refers the Pachycephaline genus Hylocharis to S. MiiUer, of which he states Hylochans philomela, 

 S. Miiller, to be the type ; and he changed the generic title, as that of Hylocharis was preoccupied. S. Muller 

 published that title, without giving any characters, in his papers on his zoological discoveries in the Sunda 

 Islands (Tijdschr. Nat. Geschied. en Physiol, ii. p. 331, 1835) ; but he called the species Hylocharis htscinia, and 

 the title H. philomela is not given by him. It is probable that the two titles refer to the same species 



