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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1921 
The publication of a colored plate illustrating the type of 
Callaeops periopthalmica and Richmond’s comment on this spe- 
cies, as well as a letter from Dr. C. W. Richmond with regard 
to the species, have led me to reexamine the specimens of 
“Terpsiphone nigra” in the Bureau of Science collection. 
The type of C. periopthalmica was purchased by John White- 
head from Brolio Barboza, a Filipino taxidermist, with whom 
I was well acquainted. The collector assured me that the spec- 
imen was killed with a blow gun near Malabon, a small town 
a few kilometers from Manila. Like many other taxidermists 
this man kept no record of his specimens and so was unable to 
furnish me any other information about this bird. Who really 
killed the bird is doubtful and is of no consequence, but I think 
it probable that the bird was really collected near Manila. In 
the vicinity of Malabon the vegetation is entirely unsuited to 
such birds as the long-tailed flycatchers. Therefore, I think 
there can be no doubt that the type of “Callaeops” was a wind- 
driven individual far from its normal habitat. Unfortunately 
we do not know the date on which this specimen was collected. 
In May, 1907, through the courtesy of Gen. Leonard Wood, 
in company with the late Col. E. A. Mearns, I was able to visit 
Batan Island, one of the most northern islands of the Philippine 
Archipelago. On that island I was delighted to find a long- 
tailed, black and white flycatcher of which we collected a good 
series. This I described as Terpsiphone nigra, but I noted that 
some of the specimens agreed with the description of Callaeops 
periopthalmica. The type of the latter species has passed to 
the Tring Museum, and Hartert has published some comment 
on the species and a colored plate of the type. Richmond has 
published some further notes on the species. 
Hartert’s colored plate shows a bluish black bird with the ab- 
domen and the tips of the inferior tail coverts white. Twelve 
graduated rectrices are shown, the middle pair being the narrow- 
est; the greatest differences in length are between the first 
and the second pairs and between the fifth and the sixth pairs. 
That “Terpsiphone nigra” breeds before it attains the full 
black plumage is indicated by specimen 6440 in which one of 
the central rectrices is considerably lengthened and the other is 
nearly as short as the next pair; the latter feathers are not 
conspicuously longer than the third pair (Plate 4, fig. 1). This 
specimen is a male collected June 5, and is marked “breeding 
male.” The abdomen is extensively whitish, and the inferior 
tail coverts are entirely cinnamon. The head and neck are 
