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Pyrrhula steeroi , new species. 
Steere Bullfinch. * 
Tyno .- No. 210772, U.8.National Museum. Adult male. Summit 
of Mount Bliss, Malind&ng group, altitude 5750 feet, northwestern 
Mindanao, Philippine Islands, June 9, 1906. Collected by Edgar A. 
Hearns (original number 14278). 
Characters Similar to Pyrrhula Icucogenys Grant, described in 
fte Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, No. XXVIII, page 
XTT, June 29, 1895, from the mountains of Lepanto in northern Luzon. 
The Mindanao bird differs in being smaller, with a differently color¬ 
ed, much smaller bill, more brownish coloration, and a tendency to 
whitening on the middle of the aht^ien which the Luzon bird lacks. 
Adult male (type, killed July 9.) - Crown and front of head all 
round, to just behind eye, black; crown glossed with purplish blue; 
lores, malar region, chin and upper throat dead black; auriculars 
vfhite; scapulars and luterscapular region deep broccoli brown; rump 
white; rectrices, upper tail-coverts, primaries, secondaries, ter- 
tials, primary coverts, and base of greater wing coverts, glossy 
bluish purplish black; lesser wing-coverts dark broccoli brown; 
terminal two-fifths of greater wing-coverts broccoli brown, paler 
terminally; outer web of innermost secondary edged externally with 
orange-vermilion; underparts broccoli brown, shading to whitish on 
middle of belly and to tawny ochraceous on crissum; axillars pure 
white; under wing-coverts brown at base, broadly white terminally; 
under side of shafts of primary quills white nearly to the tips. 
Eresh specimens, including the type, were kxiiteii noted in the field 
as having the iris dark brown; bill ^lumbeous-black, perceptibly 
■*Tho section to 'hich this bullfinch belings has recently been made the 
subgenus Protopyrrhula Bianchi. Bulls. Acad.Imp.sci.,St.Petersfe.,Ser. 
XXV,1906,159-198. Subg. for P. ripalensis . erythroce^hala . crythoca 
and leucogenys . 
