from the Island of Negros. 533 



8. Ch^tura celebensis, Sclater (Hart. Cat. B. xvi, p. 476) . 

 This species is an addition to the Philippine avifauna. It is 



also an extreme rarity, the only other specimens at present 

 known to exist in any collection beiug the two types in the 

 Leyden Museum, which were obtained at Menado, Celebes. 



The following notes on the plumage and dimensions of the 

 Negros specimen may be usefully recorded : — The back is an 

 admixture of dark brown, or brownish black, and deep steel- 

 blue, each feather having a broad subterminal band of blue 

 with an edging of dark brown, which conceals the blue to a 

 considerable extent, so that the brown predominates. The 

 tail and secondaries are glossed with green and blue in about 

 equal proportions. Total length 9*5 inches, wing 8*5, tail 

 2-88, tardus '70. 



Mr. Hartert has kindly examined this specimen, and con- 

 firmed my suspicions as to its identity, 



9. EuRYSTOMus ORiENTALis (Linnseus). 



10. Pelargopsis gigantea, Walden. 



This species is, I believe, new to the fauna of Negros. It 

 is not included for the island in Major Wardlaw Ramsay's 

 " Revised List of the Birds of the Philippine Islands '^ 

 ('Tweeddale Memoir,' pp. 653-660, 1881); Prof. Steere 

 ('List of Birds and Mamm. collected in the Philippines,' 

 p. 9, 1890) did not meet wdth it there, nor is any specimen 

 from Negros mentioned by Dr. Sharpe (Brit. Mus. Cat. xiii. 

 p. 100, 1892) as existing in the National Collection. 



The dimensions of this specimen are : — total length 

 14*5 inches, culmen 3-5, wing 6*5, tail 3*9, tarsus 0*6, and 

 indicate an unusually fine example. 



11. Halcyon chloris (Boddaert), 



12. Halcyon gularis (Kuhl). 



13. Penelopides panini (Boddaert). 

 Male and female. 



14. Craniorrhinus waldeni, Sharpe, Jouru. Linn. Soc.^, 

 Zool. xiii. pp. 155-6 (1876). 



Male. 



