192 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIBDS 



Galgulus philippensis, Kittlitz, mot. propr. Kupfert. p. 8, pi. 13. fig. 2, "Philippines" (1832). 

 Hypsipetes pMlippensis, Strickl. mot. propr. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 413, " Manilla" (1844) ; 



V. Martens, tom. cit. no. 55. 

 Philedon ffularis, Cny. Mns. Paris; Pucheran, Archives du Mus. vii. p. 344, pi. 18, "China?;" 



Gray, Hand-list, no. 3992. 



Ilab. 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 Pycnonotince, while Hypsi- 

 petes m'clellandii is included in the PhyllornithincB. 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. ntclellandii. 



Montbeillard's type was obtained in the Philippines by Sonnerat. Cuvier's is said to 

 have been brought from China by Dussumier (October, \?>2Q),fide Pucheran, I. 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 {I. c.) represents the top of the head rufous, whereas it is dark 

 cinereous; and the plate on the whole is an indiflerent representation of the Philippine 

 bird. 



SAXICOLID.^. 

 MoNTicoLA, Boie. 



103. MONTICOLA SOLITARIUS. 



Tardus solitarius, L. S. MUUer, N. S. Suppl. p. 143, 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. See. 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. 



