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Lead is yellowish green and not emerald-green ; there is also no blue 

 on the wing-coverts, the whole wing being green. 



The following is a full description of the bird. 



Adult. General colour above dark grass-green, including the hind 

 neck, entire mantle, and scapulars ; wings a little lighter green, the 

 wing-coverts and secondaries with narrow yellow margins, the pri- 

 maries blackish on the inner web, externally dark grass-green with 

 a slight blue shade along the shaft, the first primary black shaded 

 with blue on the outer web ; entire black and rump deep cobalt-blue; 

 upper tail-coverts green, slightly shaded with yellow on the margins ; 

 tail-feathers dark green, with a narrow margin of yellow at the tip, 

 the under surface of the tail golden-yellow ; head yellowish green, 

 the sides of the face also of this colour; the under-surface of the 

 body bright grass-green, yellow on the throat and fore neck and 

 passing into green on the breast and abdomen; under wing-coverts 

 and under tail-coverts of the same green as the breast, with yellow 

 margins ; quills ashy blackish below. Total length 155 inches, 

 culmen 1*8, wing, 8"6, tail 6*4, tarsus 0*65. 



On comparing T. burbidgei with T. everetti, one is struck at 

 once by the larger size of the former and its yellowish green head, 

 the crown being emerald-green in T. everetti, which also has the 

 wing only 7 "55 inches in length (Samar : Mus. Brit). None of the 

 Sulu birds, of which there are five in the collections, have the 

 feathers of the mantle edged with blue as in the Samar individual. 



5. Elanus hypoleucus, Gould. 



Elanus hypoleucus, Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 338; Wald. Tr. Z. S. 

 ix. p. 142 ; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 757. 



An adult specimen : wing 11 "5 inches. 



[Luzon (Jagor) ; Cebu (Everett) ; Sulu (Burbidge) ; N. "W. Borneo 

 (Treacher).] 



6. Scops rufbscens (Horsf.). 



Scops rufescens, Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 102. 



One specimen. 



This bird seems to me to differ slightly from Bornean and 

 Malaccan examples in having a much darker face, the ear-coverts 

 shaded with black. I do not, however, propose to found a new 

 species on a single example, and must wait for more specimens. 

 The measurements of the Sulu bird are as follows : — Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 4-8, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-85. It will be seen 

 that they are a good deal inferior to those of the type of Scops 

 mantis, as given by me in the " Catalogue." 



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