32. nuoNixuRus. 419 



r. 5 ad. 3k. Zamboanga, April (.4. //. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett). 



8. Ad. sk. Zamboanga. Tweeddale Coll. 



t, n. J 2 ad- sk- Basilan, June (A. H. Eo- Tweeddale Coll. 



erett). 



4. Prioniturus suluensis. 



Prioniturus discurus, Sharpe (nee Vieitt.), P. Z. S. 1879, p. 313 

 (Sooloo Islands) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 251. 



Prioniturus discurus, var. suluensis, Bias. Journ.f. Orn. 1390, p. 140 

 (Sulu Inselu). 



Very much like P. discurus, from which it differs in being larger 

 and in the greater extension of the blue colour on the crown, where 

 it begins from the anterior edge of the forehead and extends to the 

 occiput ; also the lores are bluish green ; on the nape and upper 

 part of the back there is a very distinct olive patch, of the same 

 colour as the underparts. Total length 13 - -5 inches, wing 6-4, 

 central tail-feathers G--5, lateral tail-feathers 3, bill 0-9, tarsus 0"68. 



Hub. Sooloo Islands. 



fl. Ad. sk. Sooloo Islands. II. Veitch, Esq. [P.] 



5. Prioniturus mindorensis. 



Prioniturus mindorensis, Steere, List B. 8[ M. Steere Exped. to the 

 Philipp. p. 6 (18'.i0). 



Adult male. General colour grass-green as in P. discurus ; crown 

 and nape violet ; lores, face, and chin yellow-green (Steere). 

 Hub. Mindoro. 



(J. Prioniturus cyaneiceps. 



Prioniturus platens! *, Bias. Braunsehioei(/ische Anzeiger, no. 37, 



Febr. 12 (1888), p. 335; id. Orrds, iv." p. 305 (1888); id. Ibis, 



1888, pp. 372, 374. 

 Prioniturus cyaneiceps, Sharpe, Ibis, April 1888, p. 194 (Palawan) ; 



Whiteh. line, 1890, p. 42; Everett, Journ. Str. Br. R. As. Soc. 



1880, p. 176; Steere, List, p. 6 (1890). 



Adult male. Green ; the whole of the head and neck pale verditer- 

 blue ; feathers of the underparts yellowish green, washed on tho 

 edges with verditer-blue ; middle of the abdomen more yellowish; 

 under i ail-coverts greenish yellow; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills green, with a bluish tin^c internally; innermost second- 

 aries near the scapulars whitish yellow on the inner web ; middle 

 tail-feathers green, the shaft and the spatule black; lateral tail- 

 feathers above bluish along the middle, mostly green on the outer 

 weh. edged with black on the inner web and black at the tip ; tail 



* According to the rules followed in the volumes of the' Catalogue of Birds,' 

 names published in daily or political newspapers cannot stand. 



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