284 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
“This parrot may prove to have a much wider distribution in the Phil- 
ippines than is at present kno our discovery of the bird in north 
pp y 
Luzon being a mere chance. * * * Male, iris orange; bill rosy red; 
5 b = aaa. rt ’ 
feet dull olive-brown; female, iris orange; bill creamy white; feet dull 
olive-brown.” (Whitehead.) 
245. TANYGNATHUS BURBIDGEI Sharpe. 
BURBIDGE’S PARROT. 
Tanygnathus burbidgei SHARPE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1879), 313; Hand-List 
(1900), 21, 30; Satvapori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 432, 
pl. 11; McGrecor and WorcesTER, Hand-List (1906), 49. 
Bongao (Hverett); Sulu (Burbidge, Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester) ; Tawi 
Tawi (Everett, Bourns & Worcester). 
“Adult.—Dark green; head and neck bright yellowish green; lower 
back and uropygium deep turquoise-blue; upper wing-coverts with very 
narrow yellowish green edges; tail above dark green; underneath dull 
golden olive. Iris red; bill vermilion; tarsus dull olive-brown.’ (@uil- 
lemard.) Length, 406; wing, 223; tail, 157; bill, 38; tarsus, 19. 
“Young.—A little smaller than the adult, the head somewhat darker 
and the bill whitish. A 
“This is a very distinct species, resembling 7’. everetti, but much 
larger and with the head lighter than the body, and no blue edgings to 
the feathers of the interscapular region.” (Salvadori.) 
“Common in Sulu but very shy, and seemed to be shot-proof. Un- 
fortunately, too, it was molting at the time of our stay, and but two 
good specimens were secured. Readily distinguished from 7. lucionensis 
by its cry alone. Found in deep forest, and in fruit trees in the open. 
~ “Two males average, 375 in length; wing, 213; tail, 150; culmen, 33; 
Less common in Tawi Tawi, and observed only in the forest.” (Bourns 
and Worcester M. 8S.) 
Genus BOLBOPSITTACUS Salvadori, 1891. 
Bill short and very broad; edge of upper mandible strongly sinuate 
but not toothed ; the short, nearly equal, rectrices extend but little beyond 
the tail-coverts ; colors green, yellow, and blue; length, 140 to 165 mm. 
Species.* 
a, Cheeks blue. 
b+, Cheeksand collar pale: bblie... .:2:..2-.s:schul oe eng lunulatus, J (p. 285) 
6°, Cheeks and collar bright. ‘blue. /. 2.1.44 200. cease intermedius, ¢ (p. 285) 
a*, Cheeks green. 
Gt (Callktr. deep jihwek a ee oi tn err oe. tide, Enea, aes mindanensis, ¢ (p. 286) 
b*. Collar yellow, with crescent-like black bands............ sbi (p. 285) 
, mindanensis, 2 (p. 286) 
G, Collar: faint orangesy CMW soe... sted. secede intermedius, 2 (p. 285) 
* The key is that of the Catalogue of Birds with slight changes. 
