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and quills underneath verditer-blue : bill grey ; feet dark. Total 

 length 12 - 4 inches, wing 6T to 5 - 8, middle tail-feathers 5*6, lateral 

 tail-feathers 2-8, bill 0-8, tarsus 0-5. 



Female. Has a vory slight tingo of blue on the pileum and cheeks ; 

 the occiput and nape aro bright green ; the underparts are yellowish 

 green, with no blue tinge ; the bastard-wing and the primary- 

 coverts are green, with no blue tinge, and the lateral tail- 

 feathers with scarcely any along the middle ; under tail-coverts 

 pure yellow. 



Young. Green, with no verditer-blue shade on the head and 

 neck ; greater wing-coverts and secondaries edged with yellowish 

 green : underparts yellowish green ; under tail-coverts yellow, 

 washed with greenish ; middle tail-feathers longer than the lateral 

 ones, narrow towards the point and entirely webbed. 



Hub. Palawan. 



a-d. 3 2 ad. et Palawan, July, August. J. Whitehead, Esq. [0.]. 

 imm. sk. (Typical specimens of P. eyanei'ceps, Sharpe.) 



7. Prioniturus luconensis. 



Prioniturus discurus (part.), Tweedd. Tr. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 132 (1875) 

 (Luzon) ; id. {nee Vieill.) P. Z. S. 1877, p. G88 (Monte Alban) ; id. 

 Orn. Works, p. 300 (part.) and p. 514 (nee Vieill.) (1881). 



Prioniturus luconensis, Steere, List B. § M. Steere Exped. to the 

 Philipp. p. 6 (1890). 



Adult. General colour above and below, including the head, bright 

 yellow-green ; quills, except the innermost ones, near the scapulars 

 darker green ; first primary edged with blue on the outer web, 

 second bluish green on the outer web ; the innermost quills, near the 

 scapulars, with a broad whitish spot on the inner web ; quills under- 

 neath verditer-green on the inner web ; two middle tail-feathers 

 green, with a black-blue spatula at the end ; lateral tail-feathers 

 green, deep blue towards the end ; tail underneath verditer-green : 

 " iris brown ; bill lead-grey " (Everett). Total length from the tip 

 of the bill to the tip of the middle tail-feathers 12 - 6 to 11 inches, 

 to the tip of the lateral tail-feathers 9"6 to 8"6, wing 5"9 to 5-6, 

 middle tail-feathers 6 or less, bill 0-7, tarsus 0-55. 



Immature. Differs from the adult in having the middle tail- 

 feathers with the shaft not naked and with no developed spatula, 

 although the webs become narrower before the end ; the tips of the 

 two middle tail-feathers are blue : the lateral tail-feathers have, 

 towards the end, less blue than in the adult bird. 



Hab. Luzon, Philippine Islands. 



a, b. <5 ad. sk. Luzon, Jan. (A. B. Meyer). Tweeddale Coll. 



c-f. d ad. etimm.sk. Munte A\hnu,¥eb.(A.JI.Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



