548 ON THE OEXITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877. 



Museum, and has expressed his opinion that it is necessary to wait for more specimens before 

 the question of its non-identity with P. ptilorhyncha can be decided. 



11. Thkipon.o: javensis (28). 

 [Surigao, ? , May. Iris Naples yellow.] 



12. MuLLERiPicus FULiGiNOSus. (Plate LXXXIII. in ong.) 



MuUeripicus fuligimsus, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, xx. p. 53-i (December 1, 

 1877). [Postea, p. 562.] 



S . Slaty smoke-grey. Feathers of the forehead, vertex, occiput, chin, throat, and neck 

 with a terminal white or fulvous-white linear mark. Lores, ear-coverts, and ophthalmic region 

 uniform o-rey. Feathers covering basal walls of mandible and the cheeks crimson. 

 Wing 6-25 inches, tail 5-25, culmen 1-70, tarsus 1-00. 

 P.Z.S.1877, [Surigao, 6 , May. Iris Naples yellow ; bill whitish horn-colour ; feet dirty greenish.] 



p. 822. jjjjg species may be readily distinguished from M.funebris, its nearest ally, by being slaty 



grey and not almost black, by the cheeks only being red ( 6 ) and not the sides of the head, 

 forehead, and vertex, by the red colour being crimson and not mulberry-red, and by the form 

 of the white marks at the tips of the gular, occipital, and nuchal feathers being linear and not 

 round. 



13. Chrtsocolaptes lucidus (32). 



Vide P. Z. S. 1877, p. 539. no. 5. [Anfea, p. 463.] 



[Butuan, d. May. Bill black; mandible green-yellow ; feet dull brownish green.] 



A single example, in which, however, the middle pair of rectrices exhibit two pairs of spots 



near their insertion, showing that they do sometimes appear, and that Sonnerat was correct in 



so figuring the bird. 



14. Meeops bicoloe (36). 

 [Butuan, $,May; Placer, d , July.] 



Chestnut of upper parts unmixed with green. This Bee-eater can no longer be included 

 among the birds peculiar to the Philippines, if the statement made by MM. Oustalet and David 

 (Ois. de la Chine, p. 73) that it visits China during summer in small parties is correct. Up to 

 now it has only been observed in the Philippines by naturalists during the months of February, 

 March, April, July, and October. 



15. EUKYSTOMUS orientalis (37). 

 [Butuan, d $ , May.] 



16. Pelaegopsis gigantea ? 



Pelargopsis gigantea, Walden, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, vol. xiii. p. 123 [autea, p. 253]; 

 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 541. no. 10. [A7itea, p. 465.] 



[Butuan, d , May. Iris dark brown ; bill bright red ; feet dark red.] 



