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rowly, the next broadly, and the outermost for more than one-third of its length; 

 chest, flanks, and thighs, gray like the back, this color fading to whitish on the 

 abdomen and becoming pure white on the under tail-coverts. Iris, red or reddish- 

 brown ; bill all black ; feet, plumbeous-black, with under side of toes yellow. 



Remarks. — The black of the under side of the head extends around the neck 

 and forms an incomplete black neck-collar which in the oldest males is but 

 narrowly interrupted in the median line above. The sexes are colored alike ; 

 but one female (No. 14177), probably immature, has the black areas of the head 

 and neck replaced by a dark gray color. The plumage otherwise differs from that 

 of the adults only in having scarcely discernible fulvous edgings and wavy cross- 

 bands to the feathers of the abdomen. 



This species was abundant on Mount Malindang. Fifteen specimens were 

 collected, ten of them males and five females. 



Measurements (taken from fresh specimens by the author). — Three adult 

 males: Length, 230-240; alar expanse, 335-342; wing, 110-113; tail, 108-117; 

 culmen, 19-10.5; tarsus, 23-24; middle toe with its claw, 20-21. Female (No. 

 14177): Length, 230; alar expanse, 330; wing, 108; tail, 111; culmen, 19; tar- 

 sus, 23; middle toe with its claw, 21. 



Centropus carpenteri, sp. nov. 



Batan Island coucal. 



Type. — No. 15190, collection of Edgar A. Mearns. Adult male. Shot by Mr. 

 William Dorr Carpenter (for whom the species is named), in the foothills of 

 Mount Irada, in the northern part of Batan Island, Philippine Islands, May 27, 

 1907. 



Characters. — Similar to Centropus mindorensis (Steere), but larger, with less 

 greenish reflections to the general black color. 



Description of type (adult male.) — General color, black, with bluish and 

 purplish, and some greenish luster to the metallic plumage; wings, purplish- 

 brown. Bill, black ; feet, plumbeous, claws, plumbeous-black. 



Measurements. — Type (skin of adult male) :' Length, 440; wing, 166; tail, 

 278; culmen (chord), 32; depth of bill, 16; tarsus, 42; middle toe with its 

 claw, 44. 



Remarks. — This coucal is almost exactly like Centropus mindorensis, differing 

 only in size and in the color of the metallic reflections to the black plumage. 

 Centropus mindorensis is known only from Mindoro and the adjacent islet of 

 Semirara. Following are its measurements, for comparison with those of 

 Centropus carpenteri: Average of three adult male topotypes: Length, 398; wing, 

 153; tail, 238; culmen (chord) 29.2; depth of bill, 13.7; tarsus, 40; middle toe 

 with its claw, 42. 



Cyornis mindorensis sp. nov. 



Mindoro red-breasted flycather. 



Type.— No. 14519, Mearns collection. Adult male from the Alag River at 500 

 feet altitude, Mindoro, Philippine Islands, December 1, 1906. 



Adult male. — Similar to Cyornis philippinensis Sharpe except that the blue 

 of upper parts is slightly darked; and the under parts differ in having the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts orange instead of white. Specimen No. 4667, 

 Bureau of Science collection, taken March 14, 1905, on the Rio Baco, Mindoro, 

 by Messrs. McGregor, Celestino and Canton, has the following data written upon 

 the label : "Bill black. Legs reddish flesh color, nails brown. Length, 5.9 inches." 



Measurements (taken from skins). — Type (adult male): Length, 145; wing, 

 75; tail, 67; culmen, 14.5; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 19; middle toe with its 



