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wanting the red pectoral patch and in having blue feathers at the base of the mandible. 

 The female only differs from that of Loriculus regulus in having no blue feathers round 

 the mouth, though a few are present at the top of the throat. 



Dr 0. Finsch has remarked (Ibis, 1874, p. 208) that Loriculus chrysonotus has no 

 orange mark on the nape ; but I find this mark very conspicuous in a specimen belonging 

 to my series of the species, ex Zebu. 



4. Haliastur intermedins, Blyth. 



Haliastur intermedins, Blyth, This, 1865, p. 28; Waldcn, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. ix. p. 142; 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, pp. 539, 689, 757, 821 ; 1878, pp. 282, 340, 709, 937. 



[No. 373, $ . Zebu. Eyes brown. Shot from the ship at the anchorage at Zebu. 

 No. 374, t . Zebu. Eyes brown. Stomach contained offal. 

 No. 388, $. Malanipa. Eyes yellow. 

 No. 434, $ . Pasananca. Eyes brown.] 

 Not previously recorded from these three localities. 



5. Chrysocolaptes lucidus, Scop. 



Picus lucidus, Scop., Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr., vol. ii. p. 89, No. 51, 1786. 



Chryscolaptes lucidus, "Walden, Trans. ZooL Soc, vol. ix. p. 147, Proc Zool. Soc, 1877, pp. 593, 

 822 ; 1878, pp. 379, 942. 



[No. 430, £ . Pasananca. Eyes red. These birds were seen in considerable 

 numbers, and frequently heard.] 



Unless Chrysocolap>tes maculiceps, Sharpe (Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, Zool., vol. i. p. 

 314), belongs to this species, this Mindanao specimen appears to be the first that has 

 been brought to Europe since Sonnerat's day ; for now that I have the opportunity of 

 comparing it with Chrysocolaptes hcematribon, I doubt the correctness of the identifica- 

 tion of Jagor's young bird ex Luzon by Dr v. Martens (J. f. Orn., 1866, p. 20, No. 110), 

 and for the reasons that, first, Chrysocolaptes lucidus is a representative form of 

 Chrysocolaptes hcematribon, and secondly, if a Luzon bird, it would have been found by 

 some one of the collectors who have well worked the vicinity of Manila since Sonnerat 

 collected in its neighbourhood. If this be so, Sonnerat must have obtained his own type 

 specimen and that of Buffon, not in Luzon, but at or near Samboangan, where the 

 naturalists of the Challenger procured this one. The species is accurately described, from 

 Sonnerat's type-specimen in the Paris Museum, by Malherbc (Monogr. Picidse, vol. ii. 

 p. 85), although his figure (op. cit., t. xvi., fig. 3) shows too little carmine and too much 

 golden on the wings, and is thus inconsistent with his own description. 



Mr Sharpe's type-specimen has unfortunately gone to America. It was obtained in 

 Basilan by Mr Stcere, and, from the description and specific title, seems to have been a 



