474 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on Birds 



I now proceed to catalogue the principal specimens of the 

 present collection. These are : — 



Lanius nasutus, Scopoli. 



Lanius nigriceps, Frankl.; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 viii. p. 286. 



This specimen has the mantle clear pale grey^ and is, I 

 presume^ a young bird, though^ according to Dr. Gadow, the 

 immature birds have the mantle " more or less strongly 

 washed with grey^^ only. As Lanius nasutus it has been 

 recorded for Negros by Prof. Steere {op. cit. p. 13). 



AiiTAMus LEucoKHYNCHUS (Linn.). 



Two specimens. 



In the first of these specimens the primaries are uniform 

 dark slate-colour, and not black. In the second specimen 

 the quills are similarly coloured, but their webs, and those 

 of some of the secondaries, are striped, blotched, or tipped 

 with black. This probably indicates that the colour of the 

 larger wing-feathers is dependent upon age, and that these 

 are not fully adult specimens. 



This species appears for Negros in the Lists of Major 

 Wardlaw Ramsay and Prof. Steere. 



CniETURA CELEBENsis, Sclatcr ; Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 533. 



This species was the prize of Mr. Keay's former collection, 

 and before he returned to Negros in the autumn of 1894 he 

 was strongly urged to use his best endeavours to secure 

 further specimens of this very great rarity. This, unfortu- 

 nately, he was not able to accomplish, though he saw Swifts, 

 which he believes to have been of this species, in considerable 

 numbers on diflferent occasions, but they flew so high that 

 they were out of the reach of shot. 



Merops philippinus, Linn. 

 Male and female. 



Thriponax hargitti, Sharpe; Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 534. 



On the appearance of my former paper on the birds of 



