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246. BOLBOPSITTACUS LUNULATUS iScopolil. 

 LUZON GUAIABERO. 



Psittacus Iitnulattts ScoPOi.l, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 86. 



Bolbopsiitacus luyiulaitts Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. ^Miis. (1891), 20, 50-4; 

 Shabpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- 

 List (1906), 49. 



Bo-bo-toc, gua-ya-he-ro, Luzon. 



Luzon (Cuming, MoUetidorff, Steere, Meyer, Everett, Sleere Eap., Whilehead, 

 McGregor ) . 



Male. — General color green, ligliter below; lores, orbit, cheeks, a narrow 

 line on forehead, and a narrow collar on hind neck pale blue ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts light greenish yellow; the longest coverts 

 clear green; primaries, primary-coverts, and alula blue on outer webs, 

 inner webs black ; ends of primaries more or less green ; on under side of 

 wing a pale yellowish band across inner webs of secondaries and shorter 

 primaries; rectrices green above, blue below. Iris brown, cere black; bill 

 black, with base white ; legs dull green ; nails horn-brown. In the female 

 all of the lower mandible is dirty white. Three males and three females 

 from Bataan Province average, wing, 98 ; tail, 36 ; culmen from cere, 

 18; tarsus, 13. 



Female.— DiEeTB from the male in having the lower parts lighter 

 green ; blue of head confined to feathers of lower cheeks overhanging chin 

 on each side; a narrow ring of light green around eye; collar on hind 

 neck yellow, each feather with two narrow crescentic lines of blackish 

 green ; lower back and rump green, with blackish crescentic marks. Same 

 size as the male. 



Young. — "Young male resembles the female." (Salvadori.) 



247. BOLBOPSITTACUS INTERIM EDIUS Salvadori. 



INTERMEDIATE GTJAIABERO. 



Bolbopsittacus intermedius Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. (1891 I, 20, 

 505; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester, 

 Hand-List (1906), 49. 



Leyte (Whitehead) ; Samar (Zfoj/rns rf- Worcester, Whitehead) . 



Male. — "Similar to the male of B. lunulaius, from which it differs in 

 having the face of a deeper blue with a purple tinge, and a blue collar 

 on the lower part of the hind neck brighter and like that of B. niinda- 

 nenswj the under parts are of a deeper and brighter green than either in 

 B. lunulaius or in B. mindanensis ; bill black; feet greeiiisli. Length, 

 147 ; wing, 99 ; tail, 33 ; bill, 19 ; tarsus, 10." (Salvadori.) 



Female. — "It differs from the male in having tlie blue of the head 

 confined to the throat, the cheeks being light green. Around the eye a 

 ring of green lighter than that of crown. The blue collar is replaced by 

 an indistinct collar of faint orange-yellow. Kump only slightly lighter 



