304 MANUAL OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"Adult male. Head and back of neck deep ochraceous, the latter rather 

 deeper in color; upper part of the back, scapulars, and lesser wing- 

 coverts rich blue; the median and greater coverts and the outer aspect of 

 the primaries rich ultramarine, inner secondaries entirely of this color; 

 tail ultramarine above, black beneath; under surface of body deep rich 

 ochraceous, a little lighter on throat and sides of face. 'Bill and feet 

 coral-red; iris chocolate.' (Everett.) Length, 330; culmen, 76; wing, 

 147; tail, 84; tarsus, 11." (Sharpe.) 



"Included in this list chiefly on the authority of Dr. Sharpe, who iden- 

 tifies a bird collected by Dr. Steere as P. leucocephala (=javana). Mr. 

 Whitehead speaks of 'two specimens' secured by himself, and refers to 

 the fact that the bird was discovered by Dr. Steere in the Island. It is 

 our opinion that the Mindoro bird is P. gouldi, and we doubt the correct- 

 ness of Dr. Steere's identification of the bird collected by the Steere 

 Expedition in Palawan. It might well happen that an occasional speci- 

 men of P. javana should find its way into Palawan, but there is little 

 doubt that P. gouldi is the common species there." (Bourns and 

 Worcester MS.) 



267. PELARGOPSIS GOULDI Sharpe. 

 GOULD'S STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER. 



Pelargopsis gouldi SHARPE, Ibis (1870), 63; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 

 17, 100; Hand-List (1900), 2, 49; GRANT, Ibis (1896), 470; MCGREGOR, 

 Bur. Govt. Labs; (1905), 34, 12, pi. 9 (nest); MCGREGOR and WOR- 

 CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 52. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Lubang 

 (McGregor) ; Luzon (Guttling) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & 

 Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Porter) ; Palawan (Lempriere, Whitehead, 

 Platen, Steere Exp., White). 



"Adult (type of species). Entire head and neck, as well as the whole 

 of the under surface of the body, rich ochraceous; upper part of back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, upper tail-coverts, and tail bluish green; quills 

 and tail-feathers rather more blue; entire back and rump silvery cobalt. 

 Length, 330; culmen, 81; wing, 152; tail, 89; tarsus, 13." (Sharpe.) 



Iris dark brown; bill and legs bright scarlet; nails dark brown; eyelids 

 scarlet. A male from Mindoro is 343 in length; wing, 143; tail, 89; 

 culmen, 85; tarsus, 15. 



Individuals of this species are often found near the seashore where 

 they feed on small crabs ; at other times they are fairly common in man- 

 grove swamps. A nest found in Mindoro on April 18, 1905, was ex- 

 cavated in a deserted termites nest which was fastened to a tree at about 

 9 meters from the ground. The three incubated eggs were glossy white 

 and measured 37.8 by 27.6; 39.8 by 28.9 and 39.6 by 28.9. 



"In Volume XVII of the Catalogue of Birds, P. gouldi is recorded 

 from Panay, the specimen having been collected by the Challenger expedi- 



