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other species of its genus in Western South America, by any natu- 

 ralist. 



The present specimen is in very nearly that stage of plumage de- 

 scribed by Mr. Swainson, as above, as Colhiricincla strigata, of which 

 numerous specimens from Mr. Gould's Australian collection are in 

 the Museum of the Philadelphia Academy. 



3. Genus IRENA, Eorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XIII, p. 153 (1820). 



1. Irena cyanogastra, Vigors. 



Ircna cyanogastra, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1831, p. 97. 

 Gray, Gen. of Birds, I, Plate LXX. 



A very fine specimen from the Island of Panay, one of the Philip- 

 pines. 



4. Genus LALAGE, Bole, Isis, 1826, p. 973. 

 1. Lalage terat {Boddaert). 



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Turdus terat, BoDD. Tab. PI. Enl. p. 17 (1783). 

 Turdus orientaUs, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 821 (1788). 



Colluricinda macidosa, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 81 (1st ed. 1848).* 



Buff. PI. Enl. 273, fig. 3. 



* "Crown and occiput black, with a slight greenisb gloss; frontal feathers slightly 

 edged with white ; brow, sides of neck, throat, breast, under wing-coverts, under tail- 

 coverts, and all the lower parts white, the feathers lead-colored at their roots ; a black 

 line runs from the front of the eye to the occiput; back and lesser wing-coverts, black; 

 rump cinereous, clouded with black ; wings pointed, the first quill narrow and but half 

 the length of the second, third and fourth equal and longest, black, basal half of the 

 inner webs white, the outer edges margined with yellowish-white ; greater wing-coverts 

 white, with a pointed black line down the middle ; tail rounded, black, tipped with white, 

 but slightly on the middle feathers, the outer ones margined with white half their length ; 

 bill and feet black; irides brown. Adult male. 



" Total length, seven and two-tenths inches ; wing, from the carpal joint, four and 

 three-tenths inches; tail, two and eight-tenths inches; tarsus, one inch ; middle toe, in- 

 cluding the nail, eight-tenths of an inch ; hind toe, including the nail, six-tenths of an 

 inch ; nail, one-fourth of an inch ; bill, half an inch ; to the corner of the mouth eight- 

 tenths of an inch." 



