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then amethystine, terminated with blue-green ; back mixed amethystine and dull 

 yellow-green ; uropygium and upper tail-coverts dull yellow-green with scarcely 

 any iridescence ; wing-coverts the same, but tinged with amethystine ; quills 

 brown, edged with pale rufous or fulvous ; tertiaries like wing-coverts, but with- 

 out any iridescence ; chin and throat pale ruddy fulvous like the forehead ; remainder 

 of under plumage ruddy fulvous, with an amethystine tinge on the breast and sides 

 of neck ; under tail-coverts pale French grey ; under wing-coverts like abdomen, but 

 deeper in shade ; middle pair of rectrices pure amethystine, with a dark grey terminal 

 band tinged with amethystine ; remaining rectrices with a much broader terminal and 

 pure grey band, the remaining part of each being deeply tinged with amethystine ; outer 

 pan with a broad, dark-brown subterminal band also washed with amethystine. Wing 

 475, tail, 3-50, tarsus 075, bill from forehead 072. 



This is a small representative form of P. leucotis, from which it chiefly differs by its 

 rufo-fulvous forehead, its pure amethystine rectrices, and its short bill. 



39. Myristicivova bicolor, Seop. 



Columba bicolor, Scop., Del. Fl. Faun. Insaibr,, vol. ii. p. 94, No. 97, 1786. 

 Myristicivora bicolor, Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. ix. p. 217 ; Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 550 ; 

 1878, pp. 113, 952. 



[No. 395, $ .) 

 -.J „ q „ ! Malanipa. Eyes brown. These were abundant on the island but kept 



m on 7 ' o j to the tops of the highest trees.] 

 The two sexes are alike. The locality is new. 



40. Charadrius fulvus, Gm. 



Charadrius fulvus, Gm., S. N., vol. i. p. 687, No. 18, 1788; Warden, Trans. Zool. Soc, p. 226 . 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, pp. 550, 701, 767, 833; 1878, pp. 344, 711. 



' - Samboangan. Eyes brown. Stomach contained worms." 

 No. 342, ?.) 



For the first time recorded from Mindanao. 



41. Nvmenius phceopus, Linn. 



Scolopax phceopus, Linn., S. N., vol. i. p. 243, No. 4, 1766. 



Numenius phceopus, Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. ix. p. 232; Proc. Zool. Soc, l s 77, p. 550. 



L ' ' ' I Zebu. Eyes hazel. Stomach with shells. 

 No. 376, ? . J 



No. 401, t ■ Malanipa.] 



A new locality. 



