Birds observed in the Island of Negros. 101 



Entomobia gularis (Kuhl) : Sharpe, Mon. Alced. pi. GO, 

 p. 165. 



Three specimens collected, two males and one female, in 

 full plumage. They do not differ from Luzon examples in 

 Lord Walden's collection, nor is any sexual distinction to be 

 detected. 



"a. S, iris light brown, bill brick-red, feet coral; stomach, 

 worms; shot in a ploughed field. 



" b, (3", stomach, small fish; shot on river-bank. 



"c. $, iris light brown, bill brick -red, feet coral; stomach 

 contained large grubs." 



Sauropatis CHLORis (Bodd.) : Sharpe, Mon. Alced. pi. 87, 

 p. 329. 



Alcedo collaris, Scopoli, Fl. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 90. no. 56 

 (1786), ex Sonnerat. 



'^ (5 , iris brown ; feet dark brown ; bill black ; stomach, small 

 crab. March, Island of Negros." 



Petrocossyphus solitarius (Miill.) : Suppl. p. 142, no. 46, 

 ex PI. Enl. 636. 



" S , iris brown ; bill and feet almost black ; stomach, seeds ; 

 frequents old buildings, rare. Negros, March. 



Broderipus acrorhynchus (Vigors) : P. Z. S. 1830-31, 

 p. 97, ''Manilla:" Gray and Mitchell, Genera, pi. 58. 



" $ , bill pink ; feet black ; stomach, seeds. Island of 

 Negros." 



Mr. Gray (H.-l. no. 4305) has suppressed Vigors's title for 

 the Philippine Oriole and adopted chinensis, Linn. In this rec- 

 tification we are unable to concur : — first, because the Linuean 

 type was brought from Cochin China by Poivre and given to 

 Reaumur (Brisson, Orn. ii. p. 328) ; secondly, because Brisson, 

 who described from Poivre's example, distinctly states (/. c), 

 " alarum reniiges sunt nigrcB : ex minoribus tamen aliquot exigud 

 macula flavicante terminantur." 



B. acrorhynchus and B. frontalis (Wall.) appear to be the only 

 two known species in which the yellow wing-spot is wanting. 



