﻿DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



By Richakd C. McGregor. 



Turnix celestinoi sp. nov. 



Specific characters. — Similar to Turnix whiteheadi but larger, bill longer and 

 heavier, wing and tarsus longer, coloration darker. 



Type. — No. 5408, <£ Bureau of Science Collection; Guinduhnan, Boliol Island, 

 P. I.; collected June 22, 1906 by McGregor, Celestino and Canton. 



Description of type. — Above, ground color black; feathers of head narrowly 

 edged with dull-buff, paler on forehead; a narrow, median line of pale-buff from 

 forehead to nape; hind neck, mantle, rump, and tail coverts with wavy broken 

 cross lines of dark rusty-buff, obsolete on neck; lores and side of head, light-buff 

 with small, black tips to feathers ; a patch on each side of neck pale vinaceous- 

 buff with narrow, black cross-lines; chin and throat, white, each feather with 

 narrow buff tip; middle of abdomen, white; rest of lower parts rusty-buff, a 

 trifle lighter than in T. roorcesterij sides of breast marked with a wide, black 

 bar on each feather; primaries, secondaries, primary covers, and alula, slate; first 

 primary and first feather of alula edged exteriorly with ocherous buff ; secondary 

 coverts and tertials with wide edges of ocherous-buff preceded by large, black 

 spots or bars; wing lining and axillaries, slate; tail, bluish-slate and hidden by the 

 long coverts. Total length, 5.0 inches; wing, 2.58; tail, 0.70; exposed culmen, 

 0.45; depth of bill at angle of gonys, 0.16; tarsus, 0.78; middle toe with claw, 0.74. 



Zosterornis affinis sp. nov. 



Zosterornis nigrocapitatus McGregor, Publications of the Bureau of Govern- 

 ment Laboratories, Manila (1905), No. 34, 29. 



Specific characters. — Similar to Zosterornis nigrocapitata (Steere) but slightly 

 larger; chestnut of chin and upper throat diffused and not forming a patch on 

 each side. 



Type. — No. 10260, J 1 , Bureau of Science Collection; Lamao, Bataan Province, 

 Island of Luzon, P. I.; collected December 3, 1904 by Celestino and Canton. 



Description of type. — Forehead and crown, black, the shafts obscurely whitish ; 

 a small patch of chestnut behind each eye, next to the black crown; general color 

 above dull olive-gray, feathers of neck and mantle with conspicuous, narrow, 

 whitish shaft lines; rump, uniform; a narrow ring around eye, ear coverts, and 

 cheeks gray with pale-yellow shaft lines; chin, throat, and fore breast, pale 

 lemon-yellow the chin heavily washed with chestnut rufous which becomes grad- 

 ually less on throat and disappears on breast; middle of breast and abdomen, 

 very pale yellow, their sides gray, overlaid with a faint yellow wash; under tail 

 coverts pale yellow; wings blackish-brown, outer edges of quills lighter and inner 

 edges whitish; median and lesser coverts with light shaft lines; upper tail coverts 

 dull olive-brown ; rectrices, dark brown, except the outer feather, their outer webs 

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