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outer rectrices narrowly tipped with white (in old birds only). Irides brown; 

 the narrow eyelids light-blue; bill blue, except edges and tip which are black; 

 legs and feet blue ; nails blackish. 



In a slightly immature, but fully feathered male (No. 6594, June 28, 1907) 

 the crest is less developed, the feathers of the crown are less scale like, and the 

 upper parts are darker blue than in the fully adult male. 



Adult female. — No. 6021, Bureau of Science Collection; Camiguin Island; 

 July 3, 1907; McGregor and Celestino. 



Description. — General color, dull verditer-blue, head, neck, and sides of head 

 brighter; forehead, dull-cobalt; chin, whitish, bordered by dull cobalt; throat, 

 breast, and sides grayish, washed with dull azure-blue, shafts white; abdomen, 

 flanks, under tail-coverts, and middle of lower breast, white; wings and tail, 

 blackish-brown, edged with dull verditer-blue. Wing, 2.53; tail, 2.52; culmen 

 from base, 0.56 ; bill from nostril, 0.34 ; tarsus, 0.66. 



Young in first plumage. — No. 6566, $, Bureau of Science Collection; Camiguin 

 Island; June 25, 1907; McGregor and Celestino. 



Description. — Above, smoky-gray; below, white; a dusky band across fore 

 breast; wings and tail, blackish-brown; primaries and secondaries edged with 

 verditer; outer webs of rectrices washed with verditer. 



This species is abundant in Camiguin and its habits are similar to those 

 of Hypothymis. The song is extremely simple, consisting of a high note repeated 

 six or seven times in rapid succession. The alarm note is low and harsh. 



Hypsipetes camiguinensis sp. nov. 



Specific characters. — Similar to Hypsipetes fugensis Grant and to Hypsipetes 

 batanensis Mearns but larger ; bill and tail longer ; flanks less rufescent. 



Type.— No. 6586, £ adult in worn plumage; Bureau of Science Collection; 

 Camiguin Island, P. I.; June 28, 1907; R. C. McGregor and A. Celestino, col- 

 lectors. Total length in flesh, 11.6 inches; wing, 5.34; tail, 4.87; culmen from 

 base, 1.31; bill from anterior margin of nostril, 0.82; tarsus, 0.99. 



Remarks. — The specimens of Hypsipetes obtained in Camiguin Island are in 

 such poor condition that it is impossible to give color characters, but it is 

 believed that adults in good plumage will be found to differ considerably from 

 the other two species mentioned. The following table contains measurements 

 of the three species of the genus occurring in the Babuyanes and Batanes. 



Measurements of male specimens of Hypsipetes. 



Species. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Culmen 

 from 

 base. 



Bill 



from 



nostril. 



Tarsus. 



H. fugensis 



Do 



Fuga 



Sept. 2 



Aug. 27 

 Aug. 28 

 Aug. 29 

 Aug. 31 

 May 28 

 do 



4.87 

 4.95 

 4.95 

 4.83 

 4.84 

 5.10 

 5.10 

 4.90 

 4.95 

 5.04 

 4.90 

 4.84 

 5.08 

 5.34 



4.73 

 4.85 

 4.85 

 4 55 

 4.67 

 4.62 

 4.73 

 4.57 

 4.71 

 4.85 

 4.67 

 4.68 

 5.00 

 4.87 



1.10 

 1.07 

 1.15 

 1.12 

 1.11 

 1.24 

 1.25 

 1.28 

 1.17 

 1.27 

 1. 22 

 1.23 

 1.36 

 1.31 



0.65 

 .65 

 .72 

 .67 

 .68 

 .74 

 . 77 

 .76 

 .70 

 .76 

 .75 

 .75 

 .84 

 .82 



0.75 

 .87 

 .85 

 .90 

 .83 

 .88 

 .95 

 .95 

 .97 

 .95 

 .92 

 .88 

 .91 

 .99 



.. .do — .. 



Do 



do 



Do 



do 



Do 



do 



H. batanensis 



Do — 



Batan 



. . do 



Do 



- do. 



do 



Do 



do 



May 31 

 June 9 



June 18 

 do 



Do __ ... 



do 



Do 



Babuyan Claro 



do— . 



Do ___ 



H. camiguinensis __ 

 Do 



Camiguin . 

 do 



June 28 

 do 







