﻿DESCRIPTIONS OF A NEW GENUS AND NINE NEW 

 SPECIES OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



By Edgar A. Mearns. 

 [Major and Surgeon, U. S. Army.) 



Since the publication of several papers on Philippine birds in the 

 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, in the year 1905, 

 I have continued my explorations in the Philippine Islands, with the 

 result that several new forms have been added to the Philippine avifauna, 

 some of which are described in the present paper. 



In identifying my birds I have had the use of the personal library 

 of Commissioner Dean C. Worcester; and I am indebted to Dr. Paul C. 

 Freer and Mr. Richard C. McGregor for every facility afforded by the 

 collections and library of the Bureau of Science, in Manila. For op- 

 portunities of making expeditions in the field, I am deeply grateful to 

 Major-General Leonard Wood and Brigadier-General Tasker H. Bliss, 

 United States Army, under whom I have served. 



All measurements given in this paper are in millimeters. 



Malindangia, new genus of Campophagidae. 



Type. — Malindangia mcgregori, sp. nov. 



Characters. — Wing and tail about equal ; wing-feathers as in Edoliisoma, 3d 

 4th, and 5th quills longest; tail, forked, 4th quill longest, 3d subequal, outer quill 

 shortest; webs of outer pair of rectriees sharply pointed. In form and pattern 

 the tail resembles that of Campochwra, but has the webs more pointed. Bill with 

 eulmen decidedly shorter than tarsus ; narrower, at gape, than length of outer toe 

 (without claw). Stiffened shafts of rump-feathers very pronounced. 



Malindangia mcgregori, sp. nov. 



McGregor's cuckoo-shrike. 



Type. — No. 14178, Mearns collection. Adult male from Mount Bliss, Ma- 

 lindang group (altitude 5,750 feet), northwestern Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 

 May 20, 1906. 



Geographical distribution. — Peaks of Mount Malindang, northwestern Min- 

 danao, from 4,000 to 9,000 feet. 



Adult male and female. — Upper parts, including crown, mantle, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and middle pair of tail-feathers, uniform light gray; forehead, chin, 

 throat, breast, and sides of head to above eyes, black ; innermost secondaries, 

 scapulars, and least wing-coverts, gray like the back; middle and greater wing- 

 coverts, and a broad external band on innermost pair of secondaries, white; 

 remaining wing-quills black externally, broadly white on inner webs at base ; 

 bastard wing all black ; axillars and under wing-coverts white ; three outer rec- 

 triees tipped with grayish-white on both webs, the innermost of the three nar- 



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