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than back and green, not yellow as in male. Under surface slightly 

 Jighter and more yellowish. Thighs green instead of yellow. 



"A young male is like the female but has less blue on sides of throat." 

 (Bourns and Worcester.) 



"A male measures 168 in length; wing, 98; tail, 33; culmen, 18; tarsus, 

 12 ; middle toe with claw, 22. Two females measure : Length, 168 ; wing, 

 95 : tail, 35 ; culmen, 19 ; tarsus, 12 ; middle toe with claw, 20. Iris 

 dark brown; legs and feet light olive-green; nails black; bill blackish 

 at tip, gray at base; cere black. Food guavas. All of the specimens 

 obtained were shot from a flock found in a mangrove swamp the day 

 before our departure from Samar." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



248. BOLBOPSITTACUS MINDANENSIS (Steere). 



MINDANAO GUAIABERO. 



Cyslopsitta tiiittdanensis Steeke, List Birds & ]\Iams. Steere Expect. ( 1890) , 0. 



Bolbopsittacus mindanensis Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 



506; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 34'; McGregor and Worcesteb, 



Hand-List (1906), 49; Grant, Ibis (1906), 494. 



Mindanao {Cuming, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester, Goodfelloie, 



Celestino) ; Panaon (Everett). 



"Adult male. — Differs from that of B. lunulatus in having the cheeks 

 green, the blue round the eyes separated by the green cheeks from the 

 blue of the throat ; the collar on the lower hind neck is of a brighter 

 and deeper blue ; the green of the head has a yellowish tinge, contrasting 

 with the purer green color of the back. Iris dark brown ; bill black, the 

 base of the maxilla light gray; feet greenish." (Everett.) Length, 

 about 152 ; wing, 96 to 99 ; tail, 33 ; bill, 18 ; tarsus, 10. 



"Adult female. — Exactly similar to the female of B. lunulatus." 

 (Salvadori.) 



''Two males average, 159 in length ; wing, 97 ; tail, 39 ; culmen, 18 ; 

 tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 20. Six females, lengtli, 154; wing, 

 96; tail, 41; culmen, 18; tarsus, 12; middle toe with claw, 19. Iris 

 brown; legs and feet light olive-green. Called by the natives 'guayabero' 

 from its habit of eating guavas. On the few occasions when we met with 

 this species it occurred in flocks. It is a common cage bird in Mindanao. 

 We searched in vain for it in Basilan, but are by no means satisfied that 

 it does not exist there." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



(ienus LOIJU'I^H'S Blyth. 1H49. 



Length, about 150 mm.; bill compressed; tail short, rectrices slightly 

 graduated and extending a little beyond tail-coverts; general color grass- 

 green, more yellowish below; forehead, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 scarlet; tail green above, blue below; under surface of primaries black, 

 widely edged with blue on inner webs; adult males with a large, oval 

 scarlet spot on throat and breast; bases of the feathers yellow; adult 



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