194 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS 



CopsYCHUS, Wagler. 



106. *COPSTCHUS MINDANENSIS. (PI. XXXIII. fig. 1.) 



Le Merle de Mindanao, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 387 ; D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 627. f. 1. 

 Turdus mindanensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 833, no. 76 (1788), ex Montb. 



Cops%jchus mindanensis (Gm.), Sundevall, Kritisk Framst. p. 36, note (1857) ; v. Martens, J. f. O. 

 1866, p. 10, no. 20; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 103, "Negros." 



Hah. Zebu, April ; Guimaras, March (Meyer) ; Negros (L. C. Layard) ; Mindanao 

 (v. Martens). 



Professor Sundevall (/. c.) was the first author who identified this purely Philippine 

 species, which previously was, and since has continued to be, confounded with the 

 Malayan, C. mnsicus (Eaffles). 



In a Guimaras male {fide Meyer), otherwise in full plumage, the under shoulder- 

 coverts are tipped with white. In Zebu and Negros examples of the male they are 

 entirely black; in a Zebu female {fide Meyer) they are ashy; no white on the 

 rectrices of any, — thus agreeingwith Montbeillard's account of his type, which was brought 

 to Paris by Sonnerat, presumedly from Mindanao, although its origin is only to be in- 

 ferred from the title. 



Calliope, Gould. 



107. Calliope camtschatkensis. 



Motacilla calliope, Pallas, Rcisen Russiscben Reichs, iii. p. 697, no. 17, " Siberia" (1776). 

 Kamtschatka Thrush, Latbam, Synopsis, iii. p. 28, no. 14; Synop. Suppl. p. 140, tab. in titul. 

 Tardus camtschatkensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 817, no. 58 (1788), ex Latham ; Blytb, Ibis, 1865, p. 30, 

 " Philippines." 

 Mr. Blyth {I. c.) includes this bird among the Philippine species he observed in the 

 Derby Museum at Liverpool. It is probably only a winter resident. 



SYLVIID^. 



Sylvin^. 



Geeygone, Gould. 

 108. * Gerygone simplex. 

 Gerygone modesta. Cab. J. f. 0. 1866, p. 10, no. 23, "Luzon" [descr. nulla), nee v. Pelzelu. 

 Gerygone simplex, Cab. op. cit. 1872, p. 316, no. 4 [descr. princeps). 



According to its describer, nearly allied to G. inornata, Wallace. 



