REPORT ON THE BIRDS — PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 

 1. Prioniturus discurus, Vieill. 



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Psittaeus discurus, Vieill., Gal. des Ois., vol. i. p. 7, t. lxxvi., Mindanao, 1825. 

 Prioniturus discvirus, Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. ix. p. 132 j Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, pp. 

 538, GS8, 817, 756; 1878, pp. 379, 937; 1879, p. 68. 



| No. 431, $. Pasananca. Eyes grey. It frequents the banana- trees, and feeds on 

 their fruit, of which the stomach was full.] 



Luzon and Guimaras individuals do not differ from this typical example. 



2. Tanygnathus lucionensis, Linn. 



Psittaeus lucionensis, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 146, No. 31, 1766. 



Tanygnathus lucionensis, Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. ix. p. 133 ; Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 538 ; 

 1878, pp. 281, 340, 612, 937; 1879, p. 68. 



[No. 377, $ . Malanipa. Eyes white.] 



Does not differ from typical examples. The locality is new. 



3. Loriculus panayensis, Tweedd. (PI. I. $ et $ ). 



Loriculus rer/ulus, Souance' : Sliarpe, Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, Zool., vol. i. p. 313. 

 Loriculus panayensis, Walden, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 538. 



L ' ,-Llo-ilo. Eyes brown ; feet orange ; bill red. Stomach had seeds.] 



No. 349, ? .) J J 



$ . Grass-green, below lighter. Forehead and sinciput bright blood-red ; vertex 

 and occiput green, washed with golden yellow ; a narrow band, separating the red 

 sinciput from the golden vertex, yellow. A golden mark across the nape. Uropygium 

 and upper tail-coverts dark scarlet. A decided line round the mouth and base of 

 mandible, verditer-blue. Breast yellowish green. Outer webs of quills dark green, 

 inner black, above ; quills underneath black, most of the inner webs of primaries being 

 blue, and all of the inner webs of the remaining quills. Eectrices dark green, blue 

 underneath. Short under wing coverts dark green, longer blue. Bill coral-red. 



? . Like the male, but differs in having the vertex and occiput green, and no blue 

 round the mouth. 



This species above closely resembles Loriculus regulus, ex Negros, but differs in 



(zool. CHALU EXP. — PAET VIII. — 1880.) H 2 



