544 ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877, 



Three are new to the Philippine avifauna : — 



Cisticola greyi. jEgiaUtes cantianus. Limnodnclus acuminatus. 



One, stated doubtfully to occur in some Philippine island, was not included in my list : — 



Phlogcenas crinigera. 



The number of species of birds now recorded from the island of Mindanao amounts to 99, 

 from south-west Mindanao 59, and from north-east Mindanao 81. The grand total of birds 

 inhabiting the Philippine area (as restricted by me) has been increased by Mr. Everett's 

 researches to about 288. 



1. CaCATUA HiEMATtTEOPTGIA (1). 



[Mouth of Butuan river, <S , May. Iris dark brown ; orbital skin white ; bill lead-grey ; feet 

 grey. Placer, 6 ? , July.] 



2. Pkioniturus discueus (2). 

 [Surigao, <3 , June; Placer, cJ, July.] 



3. TAJ!nrGNATHUS LUZOKENSIS (3). 



[Butuan, c?, May; Surigao, 6 ? , May.] 



4. Tantgnathus eteeetti. 



Tanygnathus everetti, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 533 (December ly 

 1877). \Postea, p. 561.] 



Tanygnathus sumatranus (Eaffles), G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 8248, " Island of Sama." 



P.Z.S.1877, $ . Whole head light green. Throat, breast, and abdominal region the same, with an 



ochreous tint. Upper back and interscapulars dark green. First primary dark brown, very 

 narrowly margined with green on outer web ; remaining primaries brown, with the whole of the 

 outer web green, and, towards the ends, some of the inner webs. Secondaries, and tertiaries 

 above, green. All the wing-coverts gi'een, naiTowly margined with yellow. Quills underneath 

 brown. Under wing-coverts green and yellowish green. Rectrices above green, like quills ; 

 below pale golden brown. ]Middle and lower back and uropygium deep turquoise-blue, not sky- 

 blue. Upper tail-coverts green. Bill in dried skin white. 



Wing 7 inches, tail 5, tarsus 0'75, bill from gape 1-00. 



[Butuan, $ , May. Iris orange.] 



Only one example is sent by Mr. Everett ; but while very close to T. alhirostris, Wallace, 

 of Celebes, it can be readily distinguished by the deep tone of the blue of the back and its 

 smaller dimensions. An example from the Philippine island of Samar, obtained by Cuming, is 

 in the British Museum, and is alluded to by Dr. O. Finsch (Pap. ii. p. 360) as being possibly 

 T. muelleri of Celebes. Mr. Sharpe, who has compared T. everetti with Cuming's Samar 

 example, writes: — "T. everetti certainly seems to me to be exactly the same species as the bird 

 marked T. sumatranus by Gray. It has the same blue edgings to the interscapular feathers. 



