432 PSITTACID.E. 



7. Tanygnathus everetti. (Plate X.) 



Tanygnathus sumatranus, G. R. Gr. (nee Raffl.) List Psitt. Brit. 



Mus. p. G8 (Saniar Isl.) (1859) ; id. Hand-list, ii. p. 158, n. 8248 



(1870). 

 Loriculus (Tanygnathus) sumatranus, v. Mart. Journ. f. Orn. 1866, 



p. 22 (partini). 

 Tanygnathus mulleri, part., Wald. Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 31 (1872). 

 Tanvgnathus everetti, Tweedd. Ann. fy May. N. H. (4) xx. p. 533 



(1877) (Butuan, N. Mindanao) ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 818 ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 314 ; Tweedd. Om. Works, pp. 544, 561 (1881) ; 



Wardl. Rams. Tweedd. Orn. Works,??. 655, 670 (1881) ; Rchnw. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 246 (Consp. Psitt. p. 134); id. Voyelbild 



text of pi. xxvii. f. 9 (1878-83) ; Steere, List, p. 6 (1890). 



Adult. Whole head grass-green; neck and underparts paler green, 

 slightly yellowish ; interscapular region dark green, with the edges 

 of the feathers blue ; lower back and uropygium deep turquoise-blue ; 

 upper tail-coverts green, more or less edged with blue ; wings green ; 

 smaller upper wing-coverts near the bend of the wing edged with 

 blue, all the others as well as the secondaries edged with yellowish 

 green ; primary wing-coverts green, washed with blue ; under 

 wing-coverts green, obsoletely edged with yellowish green ; tail 

 above green with paler tip, underneath golden olive-yellow : bill red ; 

 feet dark grey. Total length 13 inches, wing 7'7, tail 5, bill 1-3, 

 tarsus - 65. 



Young. Has the bill reddish white ; " iris orange " (Everett). 



Hub. Philippine Islands — Samar, Panay, and Mindanao. 



Of the five specimens in the British Museum mentioned below, 

 only the first two, from Samar and Panay, have the bill red ; 

 the other three have it whitish : the one from Samar and that from 

 Panay have the lower back and the uropygium deep turquoise-blue, 

 like the type specimen from Butuan, a white-billed bird ; the last 

 two specimens, which apparently have been kept in confinement, 

 have the blue colour of the uropygium lighter. 



a. Ad. st. Samar. Purchased. 



b. S ad- sk. Conception, Panay, January. E. L. Moseley [C.]. 



c. 2 hum. s k- Butuan, Mindanao, May (A. Tweeddale Coll. 



H. Everett). ( T yP e of species.) 



d. Ad. st. Zoological Society. 



e. Ad. st. [Sumatra.] Massena Coll. 



8. Tanygnathus burbidgei. (Plate XL) 



Tanvgnathus burbidgei, Skarpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 313 (Sulu Islands) ; 



ihhniv. u. Schal. Journ. f. Om. 1879, p. -J 27 : Wardl. Rams. 



Tweedd. Orn. Works, p. 655 (1881); id. Ibis, 1684, p. 470; 



Guillem. P. Z. 8. 1885, p. 252 (Sulu Island.-). 

 Tanvgnathus albhostris, part., Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 246; 



id. Consp. Psitt. p. 134 (1881). 



Adult. Dark green ; head and neck bright yellowish green ; lower 

 back and uropygium deep turquoise-blue ; upper wing-coverts with 

 very narrow yellowish-green edges ; tail above dark green, under- 



