1877.] ON THE BIRDS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 463 



<^ . Grass-green, below lighter. Forehead and sinciput bright blood-red ; vertex and occiput P-Z.S.1877, 

 green, washed with golden yellow ; a narrow band, separating the red sinciput from the golden ^" 

 vertex, yellow. A golden mark across the nape. Uropygium and upper tail-coverts dark scarlet. 

 A decided line round the mouth and base of mandible verditer-blue. Breast yellowish green. 

 Outer webs of quills dark green, inner black, above ; quills underneath black, most of the inner 

 webs of primaries being blue, and all of the inner webs of the remaining quills. Rectrices dark 

 green, blue underneath. Short under wing-coverts dark green, longer blue. Bill coral-red. 



S . Like the male, but differs in having the vertex and occiput green, and no blue round 

 the mouth 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill from nostril, 



in. in. in. in. 



6 3-62 2-12 0-37 0-43 



5 3-56 200 0-37 0-43 



This species above closely resembles L. regulus, ex Negros, but differs in wanting the red 

 pectoral patch and in having blue feathers at the base of the mandible. The female only 

 differs from that of L. regulus in having no blue feathers round the mouth, though a few are 

 present at the top of the throat. 



Dr. O. Finsch has remarked (Ibis, 1874, p. 208) that L. chrysonotm has no orange mark on 

 the nape ; but I find this mark very conspicuous in a specimen belonging to my series of the 

 species, ex Zebu. 



4. Haliastur intermedius. 



Haliastur intermedius, Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 28 ; Walden, t. c. p. 142. no. 17 \antea, p. 309]. 

 [No. 373, c? . Zebu. Eyes brown. Shot from the ship at anchorage at Zebu. 

 No. 374, 6 . Zebu. Eyes brown. Stomach contained offal. 

 No. 398, 6 . Malanipa. Eyes yellow. 

 No. 434, <j . Pasananca. Eyes brown.] 

 Not previously recorded from these three localities. 



5. Chrtsocolaptes lucidds. 



Picus lucidus. Scop. Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 89. no. 51 (1786); Walden, t. c. p. 147. 

 no. 32 \antea, p. 314]. 



[No. 430, <s . Pasananca. Eyes red.] 



Unless C. maculiceps, Sharpe {t. c), belongs to this species, this Mindanao specimen 

 appears to be the first that has been brought to England since Sonnerat's day ; for now that I 

 have the opportunity of comparing it with C. limmatnhon, I doubt the correctness of the 

 identification of Jagor's young bird ex Luzon by Dr. v. Martens (J. f Orn. 1866, p. 20. no. 110), 

 and for the reason that, first, C. lucidus is a representative form of C. hcematribon, and secondly, 

 if a Luzon bird, it would have been found by some one of the collectors who have well worked 

 the vicinity of Manila since Sonnerat collected in its neighbourhood. If this be so, Sonnerat 

 must have obtained his own type specimen and that of Buffon, not in Luzon, but at or near P.Z.S.1877, 

 Zamboanga, where the naturalists of the ' Challenger ' procured this one. The species is ^" ^^^' 



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