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Loriculus bournsi McGregor. 
Among 24 specimens of this species from Tablas there are but 4 adult * 
males and even these are not in perfect plumage. They show the 
characters assigned to this species." 
Eurystomus orientalis (Linn.). 
A male of the oriental roller from Badajos, Tablas, August 22. 
Ceyx bournsi Steere. 
A pair of the Bourns’s kingfisher. 
Halcyon chloris (Bodd.). 
Three specimens of the common green kingfisher. 
Halcyon winchelli Sharpe. 
Three specimens of Winchell’s kingfisher. 
1 think the one described by Sharpe* was an immature bird. At any rate 
the adult male is pure white below, as illustrated by a specimen in the present 
collection from Tablas, August 31. The other two skins are marked female and 
are in moult, the lower parts fawn color as described. 
Merops americanus P. L. S. Miiller. 
Three specimens from Badajos, September 12, 1905. 
Salangana marginata (Salvad.). 
One specimen from Badajos, September 6. 
Cacomantis merulinus (Scop.). 
One specimen in mixed plumage, September 13. 
Eudynamis mindanensis (Linn.). 
T'wo males and a female. 
Centropus viridis (Scop.). 
Six specimens. 
Xantholaema roseum (Dumont). 
Nine specimens of the rosy barbet were collected. 
Pitta erythrogaster Temm. 
One specimen. 
Pitta atricapilla Less. 
The black-headed ground-thrush appears to have been abundant in Tablas, as 
the collection contains ten specimens, in fine plumage. 
Cyornis philippinensis Sharpe. 
Two specimens. 
Hypothymis occipitalis Vig. 
One specimen. 
Rhipidura nigritorquis Vig. 
One specimen, 
“McGregor: Publications of the Bureau of Government Laboratories (1904), 
23, 16. 
§ Cat. Bds., 17, 255. 
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