CULMEN
NO. SEX WING TO FEATHERS
86,492 [Male] ad. 501 87
86,493 [Male] ad. 491 89
86,491 [Female] ad. 552 92
BUTEO JAPONICUS (Temminck & Schlegel).
One immature example (sex not determined) was shot by Mrs. Robb White
at Sagada, Bontoc, northern Luzon in July 1913 and given to Governor
Forbes. This, I believe, is the first record for the species in the
Philippines. The specimen, M. C. Z. 64,621, affords a wing length of
366 mm.
XANTHOLAEMA HAEMACEPHALA HAEMACEPHALA (Muller).
Two adult males, Mindoro, July. (Also two old skins in M. C. Z.
labeled "Manilla").
Stuart Baker, (Ibis 1919, p. 219), has already pointed out the strong
characters that distinguish the Philippine form of this little Barbet.
I include it in these notes merely to emphasize the fact that it must
be kept distinct from birds from India, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra,
etc. Its long bill, dark colors, and heavily striped under parts at
once distinguish it.
XANTHOLAEMA ROSEA INTERMEDIA Shelly.
Four adults, both sexes, Negros, July.
This is another strongly marked representative form, peculiar to the
Philippines. It differs from _X. rosea rosea_ (Dumont) of Java etc. in
its very much larger bill (averaging 22 mm. as against 16 mm. in true
_rosea_), slightly larger size, darker colors, and much more heavily
striped under parts.
LALAGE NIGER MITIFICA, subsp. nov.
Twelve specimens, both sexes, Lubang near Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan,
Camiguin, Camotes, Basilan, Panay, Mindoro, and Cagayan de Sulu, June,
July, and August.
TYPE.--M. C. Z. 64,329 adult [Male], Lubang, near Luzon, 6 July, 1913.
W. Cameron Forbes.
CHARACTERS.--Similar to _L. niger niger_ (Forster), (type-locality "in
India Orientali" which I will farther restrict to Singapore, being as
likely as anywhere else to have been whence the type actually came),
but larger; in color the adult [Male] differing in the sheen of the
head and back being darker and more purplish, less greenish; the rump
slightly darker gray and the tibia grayer, less whitish. The adult
[Female] decidedly grayer less brownish above--deep neutral gray (the
upper parts in _L. nigra nigra_ are hair-brown to Chaetura drab).
REMARKS.--Birds from Java are small and appear to be quite like those
from Singapore and the southern Malay peninsula. The Borneo bird is a
little larger and the one female before me is gray above as in the
Philippine form.