. Birds of Calayan and Fuga, Babuyan group . ped with pale buff and someedged with white, producing an incomplete white line on middle of head(this line may be perfect in a well-made skin) ; feathers on back andrump barred and tipped with pale buff, on the interscapular area edgedalso with white; feathers on sides of face mostly white with black tips;lores white; feathers on sides of neck black, each with a wide subterminalbar of white; a small black spot behind ear; breast and throat rustybuff, extending up each side of the white chin area as rusty buff tipsto the feathers and bounded above b
. Birds of Calayan and Fuga, Babuyan group . ped with pale buff and someedged with white, producing an incomplete white line on middle of head(this line may be perfect in a well-made skin) ; feathers on back andrump barred and tipped with pale buff, on the interscapular area edgedalso with white; feathers on sides of face mostly white with black tips;lores white; feathers on sides of neck black, each with a wide subterminalbar of white; a small black spot behind ear; breast and throat rustybuff, extending up each side of the white chin area as rusty buff tipsto the feathers and bounded above by the black-tipped white feathersof malar region; flanks, under tail coverts, and sides of abdomen andbreast are also rusty buff, but paler; center of abdomen white; a fewfeathers on sides of abdomen are barred with blackish brown. Primaries,their coverts, and secondaries blackish gray; four outer primaries nar-rowly edged with whitish; secondaries barred with whitish on outerweb. Scapulars like the back but with wide edges of whitish 9 Secondary coverts blackish mottled and edged with pale buff. Tailblackish, edged with pale buff. Bill pale bluish; legs flesh pink, nailsslightly darker; irides very pale yellow. Length, 5 inches; wing, ;tail, ; culmen, ; depth of bill at angle of gonys, ; tarsus,; middle toe with claw, This bird is known to us from the type specimen purchased in themarket where it was found with others of the same genus. It is readilydistinguishable from any other Luzon Tar nix by its very deep, short bill. Spiienocercus Formosa Swinh.; Salvadori, Cat. Bds., XXI, p. 13, PI. abundant on Calayan, where it is called pu-nai, a name usedfor Osmotrcron, in many of the Philippine Islands. This bird may bedistinct from the Formosa species, which is said to occur in the moun-tains of that country, but I can find nothing in our series of a dozenskins to justify a separation, and a comparison will be necessary forfinal identificat
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