﻿294 m'gregor. 



Pardaliparus edithae sp. now 



Pardaliparus elegans McGregor. Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 27. 



Specific characters. — Size and color pattern as in P. elegans from which it is 

 most easily distinguished by the reduction of the white spots on wing coverts 

 and the general paler yellow, particularly of the light band on side of head and 

 neck which is nearly pure white. 



Type. — Xo. 3475, <$, Bureau of Science Collection; Calayan Island. Babuyan 

 Group, P. I.; collected October 5, 1903 by McGregor and Celestino. 



Description of type. — Top of head, sides of neck, and mantle, glossy blue-black; 

 an irregular white patch in center of nape ; a number of large, white spots on 

 mantle ; back and rump gray washed with olivaceous ; upper tail coverts glossy 

 black; chin, throat and fore breast, dead black forming a large triangular patch, 

 bounded above by a broad band of white, slightly washed with yellow, which 

 extends under eye across ear coverts onto side of neck; rest of lower parts pale 

 lemon-yellow washed with olivaceous on sides on neck and abdomen and on flanks ; 

 wings, glossy black ; primaries, narrowly edged with gray on their outer webs 

 and with white on the inner; greater and median coverts with white spots at tips 

 (much smaller than in P. elegans and not forming bands as in that species) ; 

 secondaries tipped with white; tail, black with white markings as in P. elegans, 

 but the white tips much smaller than in the latter species. Bill, black except 

 basal third which is whitish ; legs dull-blue ; nails horn-brown. Total length, 

 4.8 inches; wing, 2.66; tail, 1.70; culmen from base, 0.48; bill from nostril, 0.39; 

 tarsus, 0.72; middle toe with claw, 0.68. 



Pardaliparus mindanensis (Mearns). 



Pardaliparus elegans mindanensis Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 

 8 (Mindanao). 



This species is the smallest among the Philippine members of its genus; it 

 may be recognized by its small bill and the dark and yellow coloration of upper 

 parts. 



