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with the shaft not naked and with no developed spatula, although the 

 webs become narrower before the end; the tips of the two middle tail- 

 feathers are blue ; the lateral tail-feathers have, towards the end, less blue 

 than in the adult bird." (Salvadori.) 



"We found this beautiful species common about the foot of Monte 

 Arayat, in central Luzon, though we failed to meet with it in Albay or 

 Catanduanes. In north Luzon it was abundant in the maize fields, feed- 

 ing on the flower at the top of the plant. Young were obtained in the 

 month of May in Isabella." Whitehead, Ibis, (1899), 397. 



Genus TANYGNATHUS Wagler, 1832. 



Bill very 'heavy and strongly curved ; edge of mandible but slightly 

 nicked; tail long; rectrices graduated, about 25 mm. difference between 

 longest feathers and shortest; colors green and yellowish green; wing- 

 coverts variegated; length, 300 mm. 



Species. 



a 1 . Top of head bright blue ; back green lucionensis (p. 281) 



a 8 . Top of head green ; back blue. 



6 1 . Median upper wing-coverts edged with pure golden yellow. 



megralorhychos (p. 283) 

 ft 3 . Median and greater upper wing-coverts edged with yellowish green. 



c 1 . Wing about 195mm.; head darker green everetti (p. 283) 



c 2 . Wing about 225 mm. ; head lighter, more yellowish green. 



burbidgei (p. 284) 



242. TANYGNATHUS LUCIONENSIS (Linnaeus). 

 PHILIPPINE GREEN PARROT. 



Psittacus lucionensis LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 146. 

 Tanygnathus luconensis SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 424; 



GRANT, Ibis (1896), 561 (critical notes). 

 Tanygnathus luzonensis SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 30. 

 Tanygnathus lucionensis MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 49. 



Pi-coy', Bohol and Ticao. 



Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 

 Doherty, McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Cagayan Sulu (Guillemard, McGregor) ; 

 Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Caluya (Porter) ; Cebu (Everett, McGregor) ; 

 Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Lapac (Guillemard); 

 Leyte (Everett) ; Luzon (Meyer, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Maestre de Campo (Mc- 

 Gregor d Worcester) ; Malanipa (Murray) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate 

 (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Mindanao (Murray, Everett, Koch & Scha- 

 denberg, Bourns & Wocester, Goodfellow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., 

 Schmacker, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor, Porter) ; Negros (Layard, Steere, 

 Everett, Steere Exp., Keay) ; Palawan (Steere, Everett, Lempriere, Whitehead, 

 Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns 

 d Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns d Worcester McGregor) ; Samar ( Whitehead ) ; 

 Sibutu (Everett); Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor); Siquijor (Bourns 

 d Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns d Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns 

 d Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor); Verde 

 (McGregor). 



