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243. TANYGNATHUS M EGALORH YNCHOS (Boddaert). 



LARGE-BILLED PARROT. 



Psittacus megalorhynchos Boddakrt, Tabl. PI. Enl. (1783), 45. 

 Tanygnathus megalorhyiichus Salvadobi, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 

 20, 426; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 30. 



Balut [Mearns). Western New Guinea, Papuan and Molucca Islands, Sangi, 

 Talaut, and Togian Islands. 



"Adult. — Green, underneath yellowish green; sides yellow; feathers 

 of the interscapular region green, edged with light blue; lower back 

 and uropygium light blue; scapulars black, edged with blue; quills and 

 greater upper wing-coverts blue, edged with green; smaller and median 

 upper wing-coverts black, the last edged with bright yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillars yellow ; tail above green, with yellow tip, underneath 

 golden yellow, duller towards the base. Iris yellowish, with an outer 

 ring white; bill coral-red; feet lead-color.' (D'Alhertis.) Length, 432; 

 wing, 238 to 254; tail, 150 to 160; bill, 45 to 51; tarsus, 21. 



"Female. — Has the bill smaller than the male. 



"Young. — Has the scapulars and the upper wing-coverts not so black 

 and more greenish, and the yellow edges of the same paler." (Salvadori.) 



244. TANYGNATHUS EVERETT I Tweeddale. 



BLUE-BACKED PARROT. 



Tanygnathus everetti Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, (4), 

 533; Salvadori, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 432, pi. 10; Sharpe, 

 Hand-List (1900), 2, .30; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 398; McGregor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 49. 



Luzon (Whitehead); Mindanao {Everett, Steere Exp., Celestino) ; Negros 

 {Whitehead) ; Panay {Steere Exp.) . 



Male. — General color green ; entire head and neck grass-green, the neck 

 with a yellow tinge; mantle grass-green, each feather edged with dark 

 blue; back and rump dark blue; tail-coverts green, some of them edged 

 with blue; wings green, some of the smaller coverts edged with yellowish 

 green; under parts green, some feathers on abdomen and sides of breast 

 slightly edged with blue; tail-feathers above green with yellowish tips, 

 below golden yellow. Bill bright red, feet blackish in skin. Length, 330 ; 

 wing, 196; tail, 136; culmen from cere, 31, 



Female. — Like the male but the bill white. Wing, 195; tail, 138; 

 culmen from cere, 31. 



"Rare about Zamboanga. Only one specimen obtained. Mr. Moseley, 

 of the Steere Expedition, killed one specimen in Panay, and Mr. Wor- 

 cester saw another so near that there was no room for doubt as to its 

 identity. Two specimens in the Jesuit Museum at Manila are marked 

 'Negros.' We searched for it in vain in Samar," (Bourns and IVor- 

 cester MS.) 



