284 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"This parrot may prove to have a much wider distribution in the Phil- 

 ippines than is at present known, our discovery of the bird in north 

 Luzon being a mere chance. * * * Male, iris orange ; bill rosy red ; 

 feet dull olive-brown; female, iris orange; bill creamy white; feet dull 

 olive-brown." ( Whitehead. ) 



245. TANYGNATHUS BURBIDGEI Sharpe. 

 BURBIDGE'S PARROT. 



Tanygnathus burbidgei SHARPE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1879), 313; Hand-List 

 (1900), 21, 30; SALVADOBI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 432, 

 pi. 11 ; MCGREGOR and WOBCESTER, Hand-List ( 1906), 49. 



Bongao (Everett) ; Sulu (Burbidge, Ouillemard, Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi 

 Tawi (Everett, Bourns d Worcester). 



"Adult. Dark green; head and neck bright yellowish green; lower 

 .back and uropygium deep turquoise-blue; upper wing-coverts with very 

 narrow yellowish green edges; tail above dark green; underneath dull 

 golden olive. Iris red; bill vermilion; tarsus dull olive-brown/ (Guit- 

 lemard.) Length, 406 ; wing, 223 ; tail, 157 ; bill, 38 ; tarsus, 19. 



"Young. A little smaller than the adult, the head somewhat darker 

 and the bill whitish. 



"This is a very distinct species, resembling T. evcretti, but much 

 larger and with the head lighter than the body, and no blue edgings to 

 the feathers of the interscapular region." (Salvadori.) 



"Common in Sulu but very shy, and seemed to be shot-proof. Un- 

 fortunately, too, it was molting at the time of our stay, and but two 

 good specimens were secured. Readily distinguished from T. lucionensis 

 by its cry alone. Found in deep forest, and in fruit trees in the open. 



"Two males average, 375 in length; wing, 213; tail, 150; culmen, 33; 

 Less common in Tawi Tawi, and observed only in the forest." (Bourns 

 and Worcester M. S.) 



Genus BOLBOPSITTACUS Salvadori, 1891. 



Bill short and very broad; edge of upper mandible strongly sinuate 

 but not toothed ; the short, nearly equal, rectrices extend but little beyond 

 the tail-coverts; colors green, yellow, and blue; length, 140 to 165 mm. 



Species* 



a\ Cheeks blue. 



b l . Cheeks and collar pale blue Innulatus, (p. 286) 



6 a . Cheeks and collar bright blue intcrmedius, <$ (p. 285) 



a 1 . Cheeks green. 



b 1 . Collar deep blue mindanensis, ^ (p. 286) 



6*. Collar yellow, with crescent-like black bands / lunul tus > $ ( P- 285) 



( mindanensis, $ (p. 286) 



6*. Collar faint orange-yellow intermedius, $ (p. 285) 



* The key is that of the Catalogue of Birds with slight changes. 



