. A manual of Philippine birds . t chestnut;upper wing-coverts black; tertiaries barred across both webs with purewhite; three secondaries with lilac spot on outer webs: tips of secondariesand tertiaries black; primaries blackish brown; chin, throat, sides of face,ear-coverts, and lores pure black; breast, abdomen, and flanks lilac,deeper on upper breast, lighter on abdomen; thighs black, the featherstipped with brown; under tail-coverts light buff; axillars white; underwing-coverts black; bend of wing white. Female like male except that the lilac of under surface is replaced bywhite. Bill, le
. A manual of Philippine birds . t chestnut;upper wing-coverts black; tertiaries barred across both webs with purewhite; three secondaries with lilac spot on outer webs: tips of secondariesand tertiaries black; primaries blackish brown; chin, throat, sides of face,ear-coverts, and lores pure black; breast, abdomen, and flanks lilac,deeper on upper breast, lighter on abdomen; thighs black, the featherstipped with brown; under tail-coverts light buff; axillars white; underwing-coverts black; bend of wing white. Female like male except that the lilac of under surface is replaced bywhite. Bill, legs, feet, nails, and eyes exactly as in *S. stcrii and the30ung show the same plumage changes as in that species. Average measurements from five males: Length, : wing, 78; tail,62; culmen, 22; tarsus, 20. (Bourns and Worcester.) Habits exactly like those of the preceding species; abundant in Samarbut irregularly distributed.^ (Bourns and Worcester MS.) A MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS BY Richard C. McGregor Part II PASSERIFORMES. 83286 MANILA BUREAU OF PRINTING 1909 Department of the Interior, Bureau of Science, Manila. Publication No. 3, Part II. (Actual date of publication, Januavy 31. IfllO.) Order PASSEllIFORMES. PASSERINE BIEDS. Bill hard and horny, never extensively membranous, softly tumid, norcered; nostrils without open communication; greater wing-coverts notmore than one-half the length of the secondaries; primaries usually ten,more rarely nine; rectrices twelve, rarel} ten; feet adapted for perching;hind toe and claw well developed and inserted on the level of the anteriortoes; hind claw equal to, or longer than, the claw of middle toe; anteriortoes three in number, never versatile, always free except when webbedor fused at base. The order Passeriformes includes nearly as many species, amongPhilippine birds, as all the other orders combined. Most of the speciesof this order are less than 200, and very few of them are more than 300,millimeters in length. The small bir
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