18 LIST OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



177. Ptilocichla falcata. Paragua. 



178. Ptiocichla (?) Basilanica. sp. nov. Sexes alike. 

 Above olive brown becoming rufous on wings and rump. Feathers 

 of bead and nape broadly edged with black. Feathers of lower 

 back very long, overlapping the rufous upper tail coverts, silky and 

 with narrow whitish shaft stripes, and with concealed broad white 

 tips beneath. White eye stripe reaching to nape. Chin and 

 throat white with black moustachial stripe. Breast black tinged 

 with rufous and with broad white shaft stripes, this coloring con- 

 tinuing on the bellj 7 and under tail coverts, but the rufous predom- 

 inating. 1. 6.00, wing 3.25, tail 2.30, tarsus .11, culmen .75. 



179. Ptilocichla (?) Mindanensis. sp. nov. Above fulvous 

 brown. Feathers of head narrowly edged with black. Feathers of 

 back showing indistinct shaft stripes. Below much as in P. Basi- 

 lanica which it equals in size also. It is readily separated by the 

 fulvous brown of the head and the uniform fulvous of the back. 



180. Dendrobiastes Basilanica. Basilan. 



181. Turdinus rufifroxs. Paragua. 



PHYLLORNITHID^E. 



182. Aegithina viridis. Paragua. 



183. Chloropsis Palawanensis. Paragua. 



IRENIDjE. 



184. Irena cyanogastra. Luzon. 



185. Irena melanochlamys. Basilan. 



186. Irena Tweedalii. Paragua. 



187. Irena Ell;e. sp. nov. Samar, Leyte. Adult male. 

 Crown of head and nape deep cobalt blue as in I. cyanogastra. 

 Sides of neck, back and scapulars velvety black. Lower back 

 washed with cobalt, this becoming rich cobalt on upper tail 

 coverts. Tail black washed with deep cobalt. Wings marked with 

 cobalt much as in cyanogastra. Under surface deep velvety black, 

 feathers of abdomen slightly washed witli blue. Under tail coverts 

 deep cobalt. Adult female. — Chin and throat velvety black. Breast, 

 abdomen and flanks purplish blue. Size that of cyanogastra. 



I. Ella; can be readily distinguished from I. cyanogastra, its 

 nearest ally, by its black black. 



BRACHYPODIDiE. 



188. Poliolophus urostictus. Leyte, Luzon. 



The bird described by Salvadori was probably from Luzon, and 



