Title: Preliminary notes on the birds and mammals collected by the Menage Scientific Expedition to the Philippine Islands
Abstract: amethystiua.Back, rump and upper tail-coverts brown with bronze reflections, the tail coverts slightly more ruddy than back.Four outer pairs of tail feathers dark brown, lighter at base.Two central pairs ruddy brown with bronze reflections.All the tail feathers with ashy tips which form a distinct terminal band i inch in width.Shafts of tail feathers blacli.Wing coverts and secondaries uni- form with back.Primaries dark brown, the first five sharply edged with rusty brown on outer web.A narrow black stripe under eye.Sides of face, ear-coverts, fore-neck and breast rich ruddy brown, the breast with slight metallic gloss.Chin and throat lighter.Abdomen and thighs fulvous brown. .Flanks darker with slight me- tallic wash.Under tail-coverts clear ashy gray.Shafts of tail- feathers with basal half black, apical half white.Under surface of tail nearly black, the terminal grey band distinct and wider than on upper surface, measuring .6 inch on outer pair of feathers.Under wing-coverts and axillaries like the flanks.Under surface of quills uniform dark brown.Bill black.Legs and feet dirty purplish.Nails black.