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Salangana whiteheadi (Grant). 
Three small swifts from Puerto Princesa, belong without doubt to this species. 
Salangana troglodytes (Gray). 
Two specimens of this small swift were taken at Tinabog. 
Cheetura gigantea (Temm.). 
Specimens of this large swift were taken at Puerto Princesa, December 26, 
January 3, and February 3; at Tinabog specimens were taken January 22 and 24, 
Surniculus lugubris (Horsf.). . 
A female from Puerto Princesa, December 20, and a male from Tinabog, Jan- 
uary 18. Shelley* characterizes 8. velutinus as “having the head, back, throat, 
and breast velvety black, with absolutely no trace of white on any of the tail 
coverts and a distinct, narrow, white, basal edging to the tail feathers.” A male 
of velutinus from Balete, Mindoro, has the under tail coverts tipped with white, 
but not barred as in lugubris ; on the other hand the two specimens of S, lugubris 
from Palawan have narrow, white, basal edgings to the tail feathers but these 
edgings are not distinct as they are in the Mindoro specimens of S. velutinus 
before me. The specimens from Palawan have each a white feather on the 
nape; this is absent in the specimens of S. velutinus. There seems to be very 
little difference in the size of these species. The greatest variation is in the 
gloss of the wings and tail and their coverts which in S. velutinus is bluish 
and in S. lugubris is greenish. 
Cacomantis merulinus (Scop.). 
Puerto Princesa. 
Chalcococcyx xanthorhynchus (Horsf.). 
Two males of the emerald cuckoo from Puerto Princesa. One taken December 
26 is in adult plumage; the other taken three days earlier is in mixed plumage, 
the throat and upper breast with white and green barred feathers of the young 
and violet feathers of the adult about equally represented; a few feathers of 
the hind neck, barred with white and green. Primaries 1, 3, 5, 8 in one wing 
and 1, 3, 5, 6, 9 in the other wing are of the young plumage; nearly all second- 
aries and the greater secondary coverts are green and rufous. There seems 
some probability that the name C. amethystinus (Vigors) will have to be 
adopted for the Mindoro bird. The Palawan bird is certainly distinct from 
that from Mindoro and the latter should be recognized as a subspecies. Vigor’s 
bird came from the “neighborhood of Manilla” and it is not unlikely that all 
the specimens from the Philippine Islands (excluding the Palawan group) 
belong to C. amethystinus. Tweeddale* recognizes Vigor’s name, subject to 
revision on the basis of actual material to be compared. 
Measurements of three male specimens of Chalcococeyx. 
ie eletih i =a 
“a os ; | Exposed 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. enimen. 
es ; | 
Mardin che et ae aoe eee os apron nin ete ee Oe Boe 8 4. 04 2.72 0. 67 | 
Bee Tiree ee Ane Ce ee re ee hes ae ly 3.56 | 2.55 .58 
16 aly i NDC aE Ss RI oe Nie pe | I a eee een | 3. 60 | 2. 54 67 
| 
Centropus javanicus (Dumont). 
A female from Tinabog, January 18, has the under parts buff, blotched with 
black; feathers of flanks and thighs, barred with black. 
2Cat. Bdse 19; 230: 
* Trans. Zool, Soc., 9, 160, 161. 
