563 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



We have received no really adult birds from Mindanao or 

 Melanipa. 



The only Sulu bird in the collection resembles the bird 

 from Basilan in colouring, but is considerably larger. Wing 

 measures 8*3 inches. 



A male and female collected by Mr. A. H. Everett on the 

 island of Mantanaui are determined by Count Salvadori [cf. 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xx. p. 424, 1891) as immature examples 

 of T. luconensis ; but I think this is a mistake, for both the 

 examples in question have the blue on the top of the head 

 extending from the back of the forehead to the nape, which 

 leaves no doubt in my mind that they are adult birds ; they 

 resemble immature examples of T. luconensis in having the 

 shoulders green instead of black, and all the feathers of the 

 inner and median wing-coverts green margined with orange- 

 yellow. I propose to separate the Mantanani bird under the 

 name of Tanygnathus salvadorii. 



Total length. Wing, 



in. in. 



Type of c? 12-5 7-3 



Type of 2 12-2 7-15 



74. Tanygnathus everetti, Tweedd. ; Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 116. 



Everett's Blue-rumped Parrakeet is recorded for the first 

 time from Negros ; adults of both sexes were obtained in 

 the vicinity of the Canloon volcano. Count Salvadori was 

 evidently uncertain {cf. Cat. B. Brit. Mns. xx. p. 432, 1891) 

 as to the meaning of the white bill in certain specimens in 

 the Museum collection. I find this is^'^characteristic of the 

 female ; the plumage is perfectly similar to that of the male. 



75. LoRicuLUS REGULUs, Souance ; Steere, List Birds & 

 Mamm. Philippines, p. 6 (1890) ; Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 XX. p. 523 (1891) ; Bourns & Worcester, Occ. Pap. Minne- 

 sota Acad. Sci. i. no. i. p. 36 (1894). 



The Crowned Lorrikeet is met with in the central Philip- 

 pine Islands ; it has at present been recorded from Masbate, 

 Sibuyan, Romblon, Tablas, Panay^ Guimaras, and Negros. 



