INHABITING THE PHILIPPmE AKCHIPELAGO. 199 



PARID^. 



Paring. 



Machlolophus, Cabanis. 

 118. * Machlolophus ELEGANS. 



Panis elegans, Lesson, Tr. p. 456, pair, non indie. (1831) ; Pucheran, Rev. at Mag. Zool. 1854, 

 p. 68 ; Bp. Compt. Eend. xxxviii. p. 63 ; Coll. Delatre, p. 45 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 34, note. 

 Parus quadriviitatus, La Fresnaye, R. Z. 1840, p. 129, "Manilla or India." 



Hab. Philippines {Pucheran). 



Lesson's type was brought to Paris from the Philippines by Dussumier in 1820 {fide 

 Puch. I. c). Bonaparte [l. c.) mentions that numbers of individuals were sent to the 

 Brothers Verreaux about the year 1854 ; but the exact habitat still remains unrecorded. 



MELlPHAGIDiE. 



ZoSTEKOPS, Vigors & Horsfield. 



119. * ZOSTEEOPS METENI. 



Dicaum flavum, Kittlitz, Kupfert. pt. 2, p. 15, pi. 19. f . 3, "Luzon " (1833) ; Mem. pr&entes k I'Acad. 



St. Petersb. ii. p. 143, pi. 3. f. 3, "Luzon" (1833), nee Horsf. 

 Sylvia flava, Meyen, Nov. Act. Ac. C. L. C. Nat. Cur. xvi. suppl. p. 79, "Manilla" (1834). 

 Zosterops meyeni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 398, ex Kittlitz (1850) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 17. 



Hah. Luzon, February {3£eyer). 



Closely resembles Z.- palpebrosa and Z. simplex, but differs from both in having the 

 breast and belly nearly pure white, and in wanting the black lores and dark subocular 

 shading. Above, the shade of green is intermediate between the two. The yellow of 

 the throat and crimson agrees best in shade with Z. simplex, but descends lower. 



The Zosterops mentioned by Mr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 219) is in all probability 

 Z. parvula, Hombr. & Jacquin. Voy. Pole Sud, Ois. pi. 19. fig. 4, ex Banjarmassing, 

 and considered by Hartlaub {torn. cit. p. 15) to be the same as Z. melanura, Temm., ex 

 Pontianak. It is erroneously identified with Z. fiava (Horsf.) in Gray's Hand-list, 

 no. 2119. 



NECTAEINIID^. 

 DiCiEUM, Cuvier. 



120. *DlCJEUMEETEOCINCTUM. 



Dicaum retrocinctum, Gould, Ann. N. H. (4) x. p. 114, "Manilla, Mindanao" (Aug. 1872). 

 Hab. Manilla, Mindanao (Gould); Zebu {Meyer). 



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