242 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



tuft of the black adult feathers is making its appearance 

 amongst the red, and some of the latter appear to be turning 

 black without a moult. 



A third young male in the British Museum Collection, 

 figured in Mr. D. G. Elliot's Monograph, is incorrectly- 

 coloured, for the bird is represented as having the middle of 

 the breast and belly black, edged externally with pale red. 

 This, however, is not the case, the middle of the breast 

 and belly being uniform pale red. 



[This beautiful Pitta doubtless finds its nearest ally in 

 Pitta maxima from Gilolo, which, according to Dr. A. R. 

 Wallace, frequents a hummocky limestone district. It was 

 on ground of this kind that P. steerii was met with in Samar. 

 P. maxima, although apparently a white-breasted bird, has 

 beautiful green reflections if held in an oblique sunlight. Iris 

 and bill black ; feet light brown, pinkish at joint of tarsus. — 

 J. W.] 



57. SARCoPHANOPSSAMARENsis,Steere, List Birds &Mamm. 

 Philippines, p. 23 (1890) ; Bourns & Worcester, Occ. Pap. 

 Minnesota Acad. Sci. i. no. 1, p. 54 (1894). 



There are examples of the Samar Broad-bill in both col- 

 lections, the island of Leite being a new locality. 



\_Adult. Iris brilliant metallic green, with a bronze ring 

 round the pupil ; eye-wattle bright Cambridge blue, with 

 darker blue wrinkles ; bill greyish slate-blue, whitish on 

 edges ; legs Cambridge blue, back of legs darker, nails 

 whitish. 



Immature. Iris bright blue, orbital skin lemon-yellow ; bill 

 black, white towards the base ; feet olive-yellow. — J. W.] 



58. Chjetura picina, Tweedd. ; Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xvi. p. 487 (1892). 



Since 1878, when the female type of this rare bird was 

 procured by Mr. A. H. Everett at Zamboanga, the White- 

 throated Spine-tailed Swift had not again been met with till 

 Mr. Whitehead shot three in Leite. Two of these are males 

 and differ in no wise from the female either in plumage or 



