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Brachypteryx malindangcnsis , new species 
Mount Malindang Shortwing . 
Ejrne.- No. 202,137, U.S.National Museum. Adult female. 
Summit of Grand Malindang Mountains, altitude 9000 feet, Mi sards 
Province, northwestern Mindanao, Philippine Islands, June 5, 1906. 
Collected by Edgar A. Meams (original number 14209). 
Characters . Most closely related to Brachyperyx brunneiceps 
Grant and B. mindanensis Mearns. Smaller than brunneiceos , about 
equalling mindanensis; coloration very dark; russet of front of 
head intensified to almost a burnt umber, and not extending backward 
beyond the eyes; edge and lining of wings, slate color, instead of 
rusty. 
Adult male (No. 202136, U.S.National Museum. A topotype from 
the summot of Mount Malindang, altitude 9,000 feet, June 5, 1906).- 
Uniformly slate-black, becoming practically black on the w’nole head, 
except a minute and wholly concealed supraorbital white spot. Iris 
dark reddish brown; bill all jet black; feet and clav/s plumbeous- 
black (from frosh specimen). 
Adult female .- Front of head back to the eyes rusty burnt-umber, 
with eye-ring of same color; hind half of head, neck all round, and 
all of body except abdomen, blackish slate; abdomen washed with 
brownish gray; v/ings and t ; il brownish black, washed with slate color, 
edge and lining of wings slate color, not russet. The|colors of the 
iris, bill, and feet were noted as exactly like those of the male 
topotype. 
Measurements .- Adult male (No. 202136 U.S.National Museum): 
Total length, 160; alar exanse, 222; wing, 70; tail, 60; culmen 
(chord), 14.5; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 32; middle toe with 
