1877.] ON THE BIRDS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 405 



10. Pelargopsis GIGANTEA. P.Z.S.IST', 



p. 541. 

 Pelargopsis gigantea, Walden, Ann. «& Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xiii. p. 123 (1874) [antea, p. 253]. 



[No. 352, (S . Ilo-ilo. Eyes black ; feet reel ; bill red, tipped with black. Stomacli had 

 fish. 



No. 400, ? . Malanipa. Eyes black. 



No. 417, d . Pasananca. Eyes black; bill and legs red. Had in the stomach an eel about 

 6 inches long.] 



The example from Malanipa (No. 400), from which island the species has not been hitherto 

 recorded, and the one from Pasananca (No. 417) are somewhat smaller than the type specimen of 

 P. gigantea, but in other respects do not differ specifically. In colouring the Malanipa bird is 

 hardly distinguishable from the type ; but the Mindanao example has the wings, scapulars, and 

 interscapulars a much purer blue. The Panay bird (No, 352) has the same parts of a still purer 

 blue (as opposed to greenish blue), and all the plumage, including the head, which is more or 

 less white in the type, is creamy bufi", most intense on the flanks, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts. 



Our acquaintance with the mutations of colouring and what they denote in many of the 

 so-called species of this group is yet very limited ; and I prefer to retain for the present the Ho- 

 llo bird under the title above given. 



The specimens measure as follows : — 



Wing. 

 in. 



Type, ex Sulu, near Borneo . 6 '56 



c? , ex Pasananca .... 6-00 



5 , ex Malanipa .... 6-06 



6 , ex Ilo-ilo 6-00 



11. Entomobia gularis. 



Alcedo gularis, Kuhl, Buff. & D'Auben. Fig. Av. Col. Norn. Syst. p. 4 (1820) ; Walden, t. c. 

 p. 154. no. 44 \_antea, p. 320]. 



^^ „_^' >Ilo-ilu. Eyes black; legs and bill dark red. Stomach had insects. 

 No. 351, 6 .) ^ 



n.x .-.r.^ " >Pasananca. Eyes black; feet and bill red.] 

 No. 416, ? .j J ' J 



Luzon, Negros, and Zebu individuals agree well with these Panay and Mindanao examples. 

 The last island is a new locality for the species. 



12. Sauropatis chloeis. 

 Alcedo chloris, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 49 (1783) ; Walden, f. c. p. 155. no. 47 [antea, p. 322]. 



\- r c / ^ f Ilo-ilo. Eyes black. Stomach had insects. 

 ]So. 554, ?.j •' 



