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PSITTACIDJ5. 



Adah. Green, interscapular region and underparts yellowish 

 green ; forehead green ; vertex, hind part of the head, and some- 

 times also the checks, bine ; scapulars, and sometimes also the lower 

 back, tinged with blue ; quills dark green, the secondaries more or less 

 tinged with blue ; smaller upper wing-coverts near the bend of the 

 wing black, the median ones dark blue, nearly black, with broad brown- 

 yellow edges ; the greater upper wing-coverts blue, with yellowish- 

 green edges ; primary-coverts bluish green : tail green above, 

 golden olive-yellow underneath : upper mandible red, lower orange ; 

 iris yellowish white ; feet dusky greenish. Total length 12 to 14 

 inches, wing 7"5 to 7 - 9, tail 5, bill P30, tarsus 065. 



Female. Like the male, only a little smaller. 



Young. Darker green, no yellowish tinge on the interscapular 

 region and lower parts ; no blue colour on the head ; the wing- 

 coverts are green, edged with greenish yellow ; the lower back is 

 more or less tinged with blue ; bill red. 



Hab. Philippine Islands, including Palawan and Mantanani, and 

 also the Sooloo Islands. It is not quite certain whether this species 

 lives also in the Sanghir Islands. 



This species varies a good deal in size. Specimens from Manilla 

 and from Sooloo Islands are the largest. A specimen from Sooloo 

 Islands measures as follows: — Total length 14 inches, wing 8-3, 

 tail 5-2, bill 1-45, tarsus 0-69. 



a, b. Ad. sk. 



c. Imm. sk. 



d, e. $ 2 ad. s k- 



/, </. d 2 ad - sk - 

 h. Imm. sk. 

 i, k. S ad. sk. 



I. Ad. sk. 



m. 3 imm. sk. 



n, o. cJ ad. sk. 

 p. 5 imm. sk. 



q. J ad. sk. 

 r. S ad. sk. 

 s. S imm. sk. 

 t, n. 3 ad. sk. 



v. Imm. sk. 

 iv, x. 3 2 imm. 



sk. 

 y. Ad. sk. 

 z. Ad. st. 



Manilla. 

 Manilla. 

 Luzon, Jan., April (A. B. 



Meyer). 

 Cebu, April {A. H.Everett). 

 Negros. 

 Valencia, Aug. {A. II. 



Everett). 

 Guimaras, March (A. B. 



Meyer). 

 Surigao, May {A. H.Eve rett). 

 Butuan, May {A. H. Everett). 

 Zamboanga, May (A. II. 



Everett). 

 Malanypa. 



Basilan, May {A.H.Everett). 

 Isabella, Basilan, Dec. 

 P. Princesa, Palawan, Jan., 



Dec. {A. H.Everett). 

 Palawan. 

 Mantanani, Dec. 



Sooloo Islands. 



Gould Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Prof. Steere TC.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



' Challenger ' Exped. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 E. L. Moseley [C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Prof. Steere [0.]. 



A. H. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



H. Veitch, Esq. [P.]. 

 Purchased. 



3. Tanygnathus megalorhynchus. 



Psittacus fuscus, Briss.. Orn. iv. p. 314 (1760). 



Perroquet de la Nouvelle Guine"e, D' Anient. PL Enl. 713. 



Grande Perruche de la Chine, Sonn. Toy. Ind. ii. p. 212 (1776). 



