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Cecropis, Boie. 

 89. Cecropis daurica. 



Hirundo daurica, Linn. Mantissa Plant, p. 528 (1771), ex Laxman ' ; Brandt, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 



Hist. xi. p. 114. 

 Hirundo alpestris, Pallas, Eeisen Russischen Reichs, ii. p. 709, no. 19, "Altai and Siberian Alps" 



(1773) ; Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, i. p. 534, pi. xxx. ; Kittlitz, Liitke, Voy. (Postals) iii. p. 327. 



Hab. Manilla {Kittlitz). 



Brandt {I.e.) thus identified a Swallow brought from Manilla by Kittlitz. It pro- 

 babl}' belongs to the race designated Hirundo striolata, Temm., ex Java, in the ' Fauna 

 Japonica,' and which is said to frequent the islands of the Malay archipelago {cf. 

 Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 346). 



Dr. V. Martens mentions having observed a Swallow with the uropygium of a pale 

 isabelline colour^, very common about and in the houses of Bahos. With doubt he 

 identified it with //. daurica (Preus. Exp. O.-Asien, Zool. i. p. 188). 



ORIOLID^. 



Broderipds, Bonaparte. 



90. * Broderipus acrorhynchtjs. 

 Oriohis acrorhynchus , Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 97, "neighbourhood of Manilla;" Gray & Mitch. 

 Gen. Birds, pi. 58 ; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 101. 



Hab. Zebu, Negros, Guimaras, Luzon. Bill pink, rose-coloured; feet and claws 

 blue-grey ; Luzon examples {Meyer). 



A large series of individuals obtained by Dr. Meyer illustrates the varying relative 

 proportion of yellow and black on the head in different examples of this fine Oriole. In 

 a Luzon female, immature, middle rectrices tinged with green ; the enclosed yellow- 

 frontal space extends back fully for f of an inch from the base of the culmen. In a 

 perfectly adult Guimaras male with jet-black middle rectrices and quills, and rich orange- 

 golden dorsal plumage, the forehead only is yellow, that colour occupying a depth of 

 only I of an inch. This example, in the distribution and proportions of its black and 

 yellow plumage, is almost absolutely identical mth a Sula-Island specimen of B. fron- 

 talis (Wallace). The Sula example, however, has the middle pair of rectiices entirely 

 black, whereas all the Philippme examples have those feathers more or less tipped with 

 yellow. Moreover the Philippine is a much larger bird, with a longer wing and bill. 

 The extent of yellow at the termination of the middle pair of rectrices varies very con- 

 siderably. In a Negros male in full golden-orange plumage the tips of the middle pair 



> I have not been able to consult Laxman (Act. Holm. 1769, xxx. pi. 7. fig. 1) ; but it may be that he first 

 bestowed the title of daurica, which Linnceus adopted. 

 ■ In the later list (J. f. 0. 1866) this colour is described as being isabelline yellow. 



