1878.] THE ISLANDS OF DINAGAT, BAZOL, NIP AH, AND SAKTJTOK, 567 



3. Haepactes aedens ('34). 



[Dinagat, <^, June : iris brown; bill yellow, base green.] 



A single example, in adult plumage, and which has a more massive bill than is found in 

 Luzon individuals. Otherwise alike, and dimensions equal. 



4. Merops piiilippinus (35). 

 [Bazol, S, July.] 



5. EURYSTOMUS OKIENTALIS (37). P.Z.S.1878, 



[a. Dinagat, cJ , June. b. Nipah, $ , July.] 



6. Pel.\rgopsis gigantea. 



Pelargopsis gigantea, Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiii. p. 123 ; P. Z. S. 1877, 

 pp. 541, 822. [Antea, p. 253.] 



[Dinagat, S d , June.] 



Neither example in full plumage ; and both are not separable from the Butuan male observed 

 upon I. c. Butuan, Pasananca, Malanipa, and these Dinagat individuals appear to belong to a 

 small race of P. gigantea. 



7. Cetx argentata. (Plate VI. in orig.) 



Ceyx argentata, Tweeddale, Ann. Sc Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 533, ? (1 December 1877) *. 



[Dinagat, ?, June: iris brown; bill black; feet pale reddish.] 



? . Chin, throat, upper breast, abdomen, ventral region, major under wing-coverts, and 

 thigh-coverts pure white. Cheeks, sides of head, and ear-coverts black. Lower breast and 

 flanks black, washed with deep blue. Kectrices and under tail-coverts black. Plumage above 

 black; a bold supercilium commencing above the eye and running into the occipital crest, 

 formed by the component plumes being tipped with pale silvery blue ; many of the feathers of 

 the vertex minutely tipped with silvery blue. Occipital crest tipped with pale silvery bluish 

 green, or silvery blue, or the two together. Dorsal plumage and lengthened upper tail-coverts 

 black at base, then silvery bluish green, then pale silvery blue. Wings black. Major coverts 

 each with a terminal silvery-green spot. Loral spot white ; an isolated tuft on the sides of neck, 

 white tipped with creamy fulvous. Bill black. 



Wing 2'62 inches, tail 1'37, tarsus 0'45, culmen 1"50.. 



8. Sauropatis chloeis (47). 

 [Dinagat, $ , June.] 



9. Ptrrhoceiv'tor melanops (65). 

 [Nipah, ? , July.] 



10. Penelopides affinis. 



Penelopides affinis, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 534 [antea, p. 562]; 

 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 824 [antea, p. 550]. 



[Dinagat, 6 , June : iris crimson, a. ? , June : iris rather dark brown-orange.] 



* [Antea, p. 561.— Ed.] 



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