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examples possess, in common with A. frenata ? , a yellow superciliary stripe, but 

 it is much paler in tint. 



A. jugulan's differs from A. flammaxiUaris (Blyth)' in wanting the deep maroon 

 pectoral band and the flame-coloured axillaries of the Burmese species; from A. 

 pectoralis (Horsf.), from which it is otherwise difficult to be distinguished, in wanting 

 the steel-blue frontal patch. 



The examples of the female agree in all respects with Brisson's description of his 

 Certhia fhiU^^pensis (no. 4), excepting that he omits to mention the pale supercilium. 

 The dimensions of the bill, one inch from the gape, given by Brisson are too large for 

 N. sperata (L.) [cf. Walden, torn. cit. p. 28). 



Le Somimanga de I'isle de Lugon, Montbeillard, Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 496. Certhia 

 manillensis, Gm. (S. N. i. p. 471, no. 32, 1788, ex Montbeillard; Walden, Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 45), is probably Nectarinia insignis, Jard., from the Malay Islands, and not a Philip- 

 pine species {if. Walden, I. c). 



CERTHIID^. 



Rhabdornis, Reichenbach. 



124. * Rhabdornis MYSTACALis. 



Meliphaga mystacalis, Temm. PI. Col. 335. f. 2, "environs de Manille" (1825). 

 Climacteris striolata, Kitthtz, Kupft. p. 5, pi. 6. f. 2, "Luzon" (1832). 



Hob. Luzon [Meyer). 



CORVID^. 



Corvine. 

 CoEVUS, Linnseus. 



125. * CORVUS PHILIPPINTJS. 



Corvus philippiniis, H^. Compt. Rend, xxxvii. p. 830, "Philippines" (1853); Notes Orn. Coll. 



Delattre, p. 8 ; G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 6207. 

 ? Corvus brevipennis, Sclilegel, Bijdr. Dierk. pt. 8, p. 9, pi. 1. fig. 8, "Philippines" (1859) ; Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 22. 

 Hab. Luzon, April; Negros, March; Cujo, December {Meyer). 

 Dr. Meyer obtained two examples ( cJ, ? ) of this genus in Negros, one ( 2 ) in Luzon, 

 and one (?) in the island of Cujo. All the four are in perfect and identical plumage. 

 Head, nape, and under plumage black ; primaries black, washed with green ; remainder 



' A. rJiizophorce, Swinh., differs bom A. fiammaxillaris in possessing a steel-blue frontal patch and in having 

 a dark band below the maroon. The Penang specimen aDuded to (P.Z. S. 1871, p, 349, no. 86) is probably 

 A. pectoralis ; but I have observed a tendency in some species, in A. ztnohia and A. frendta for instance, to 

 develop a frontal patch. 



