On Birds from the vicinity of Manilla. 155 



Dr. Guillemard, and they are young birds which in some 

 respects approach to L. erythrothorax, a perfectly distinct 

 species, with a different geographical distribution. 



Chalcopsittacus ater (Scop.), Guiilem. ibid. p. 622. 



It appears to me that the specimens from Mysol with the 

 forehead and the tibials red require comparison, as most 

 likely they constitute a peculiar race, intermediate between 

 Ch. a^er and Ch. insignis, Oust. In my ' Ornitologia' I have 

 already alluded to one or two specimens from Mysol showing 

 those variations. 



Manucodia CHALYBEATA, Pcmi., Guillcm. ibid. p. 646. 



Dr. Guillemard says that he is strongly inclined to regard 

 this species and M. atra as identical. Dr. Meyer has already 

 pronounced himself against Dr. Guillemard^s opinion, on 

 account of the different shape and dimensions of the bill in 

 the two birds (Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. 1885, p. 374) ; I shall 

 only add, without repeating all I have said about the dis- 

 tinction of the two species, that the young birds of M. chaly- 

 beata are quite different from those of M. atra, and moreover 

 the geographical distribution, contrary to Dr. Guillemard^'s 

 opinion, is not the same. Manucodia atra, besides being 

 found nearly everywhere in New Guinea, is a very common 

 bird in the Aru Islands, where M. chalybeata does not occur. 

 Turin Zoological Museum, Feb. 5th, 1886. 



XXI. — Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippine 

 Islands. — No. 2*. On Additional Collections of Birds. By 

 R. G. Wardlaw Eamsay, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



I HAVE received within the last few months, from my friend 

 Mr. F. Maitland-Heriot, two further collections of birds 

 which were obtained in the neighbourhood of Manilla. The 

 more noteworthy species in these collections are : — 



1. Falco melanogenys. 



Falco melanogenys, Gld. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 139; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 385. 



* For No. 1 see ' Ibis," 1884, pp. 3.30-335. 



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