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olive-green, greyer on head and rump ; wings brown out- 

 wardly, edged with reddish brown. Two centre tail-feathers 

 olive-green, with a black blotch near the tip, which in certain 

 lights is metallic green ; rest of tail black, tipped with olive- 

 yellow, edged outwardly near the base with reddish yellow. 

 Under surface greyish olive on the sides of the face, throat, 

 and breast ; abdomen pale yellow, deepening on the under 

 tail-coverts. 



Faded females are dull brown above ; pale greyish brown 

 on the throat, breast, and flanks. 



101. Anthreptes malaccensis. M. 

 Scarce. 



102. Arachnothera dilutior. f. 



Plentiful in the mangrove-swamps, feeding amongst the 

 flowers. 



Eye hazel ; orbit sulphur-yellow ; feet dull blue. 



103. CORONE PUSILLA. f. 



Plentiful in all old jungle, feeding entirely on fruit. This 

 species never seems to settle on the ground or to visit the 

 vicinity of native villages, and I never saw it near the Sulu 

 cattle. Here we find in Palawan an interesting member of 

 the Crow family which has attained none of the pernicious 

 habits that make his more civilized brethren in other parts 

 of the globe so renowned. It will be interesting to see if, 

 when Palawan becomes opened up for planting and its 

 forests destroyed, its Crow will become more civilized too, 

 and change its present mode of life into that of a garbage- 

 eating pilferer. I am afraid civilization will benefit the Crow 

 as little as it does the native, so that our philanthropic 

 European race will improve them both, as it generally does, 

 off the face of the earth. 



But to return to the Crow : it is, no doubt, one of the 

 most interesting birds in Palawan, and may often be noticed 

 making nights from forest to forest, with neck outstretched, 

 and uttering a peculiar "Ka-ka-gug-gug" note. During 

 flight the wings are often held below the body, the primary 

 feathers only being used with a quick flittering motion. 



Eye, bill, and feet black. 



