70 



6. Prionochilus quadricolor. 



Prionochilus quadricolor, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 762, pi. Ixxvii. 

 fig. 2 ; Wardlmo Ramsay, Orn. Works Tiueedd. p. 658 (1881). 



Adult male (type of species). Head, neck, and mantle deep blue- 

 black; back scarlet-vermilion, with black bases to the feathers, 

 producing a mottled appearance ; rump olive-yellosv ; upper tail- 

 coverts blue-black ; scapulars black ; wing-coverts and quills black, 

 edged with blue-black ; tail-feathers black ; lores, feathers below 

 the eye, and ear-coverts blue-black ; cheeks white ; under surface 

 of body pale ashy grey, white on the throat and centre of the abdo- 

 men ; under tail-coverts white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white ; quills blackish below, white along the edge of the inner 

 web: "bill, legs, and feet glossy black; iris dark brown" 

 {A. Everett). Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-05, tail 

 1-05, tarsus 0-55. {Mus. B. O. W. R.) 



Hah. Island of Panaon, in the Philippine archipelago. 



7. Prionochilus aureolimbatus. 



Parus?, Wall Ibis, 1860, p. 141. 



Prionochilus aureolimbatus, Wall. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 477, pi. 29. 



fig. 1 ; Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, 1868, p. 420 ; Walden, 



Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 72 (1872); Rriigff. Abhandl. nat. Ver. 



Bretnen, v. p. 74 (1878). 

 Dicfeum aureolimbatum, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 116, no. 1442 



(1869). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above deep olive- 

 yellow, more dingy on the head and hinder neck ; scapulars like 

 the back ; wing-coverts and quills black, with obsolete margins of 

 olive-yellow on the lesser and median wing-coverts and inner 

 secondaries ; tail-feathers black ; lores dusky blackish ; above the 

 eye a tiny and scarcely perceptible white spot ; feathers below the 

 eye and ear-coverts dusky blackish ; cheeks, throat, and under 

 surface of body white, with a slight ashy tinge on the fore neck and 

 chest ; sides of body from the fore neck downwards bright yellow ; 

 thighs white ; under tail-coverts bright yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 white ; axillaries bright yellow ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish 

 along the edge of the inner web : " bill black ; feet black ; iris 

 light reddish brown " ( Wallace). Total length 3*3 inches, culmen 

 0-4, wing 2, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-5. 



Hah. Celebes. 



a, S ad. sk. Toudano, N. Celebes. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 h, c. Ad. sk. Menado. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Menado ( Wallace). Gould Collection. 



e. Ad. sk. Menado. Gould Collection. 



