108 THE MARO.UIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [Jan. 15, 



5- EuRYSTOMUS OR1ENTALIS (37). 



[a. Dinagat, 6", June. b. Nipab, $ , July.] 



6. Pelargopsis gigantea. 



Pelargopsis gigantea, Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiii. 

 p. 123, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 541, 822. 



[Dinagat, o , 6*» June.] 



Neither example in full plumage ; and both are not separable from 

 the Butuan male observed upon/, c. Butuan, Pasananca, Malanipa, 

 and these Dinagat individuals appear to belong to a small race of 

 P. gigantea. 



7. Ceyx argentata. (Plate VI.) 



Ceyx argentata, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. 

 p. 533, $ (1 December 1877). 



[Dinagat, ? , June. Iris brown ; bill black ; feet pale reddish.] 



2 ■ Chin, throat, upper breast, abdomen, ventral region, major 

 under wing-coverts, and thigh-coverts pure white. Cheeks, sides 

 of head, and ear-coverts black. Lower breast and flanks black, washed 

 with deep blue. Rectrices and under tail-coverts black. Plu- 

 mage above black ; a bold supercilium commencing above the eye 

 and running into the occipital crest, formed by the component 

 plumes being tipped with pale silvery blue ; many of the feathers of 

 the vertex minutely tipped with silvery blue. Occipital crest tipped 

 with pale silvery bluish green, or silvery blue, or the two together. 

 Dorsal plumage and lengthened upper tail-coverts black at base, then 

 silvery bluish green, then pale silvery blue. Wings black. Major 

 coverts each with a terminal silvery-green spot. Loral spot white ; 

 an isolated tuft on the sides of neck, white tipped with creamy fulvous. 

 Bill black. 



Wing 2-62 inches, tail I -37, tarsus 0-45, culmen 1-50. 



8. Sauropatis chloris (47). 

 [Dinagat, $ , June.] 



9. Pyrrhocentor melanops (65). 

 [Nipah, ? , July.] 



10. Penelopides affinis. 



Penelopides affinis, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. 

 p. 534 ; P. Z. S. 1877, p. 824. 



[Dinagat, c?,June: iris crimson, a. $, June: iris rather dark 

 brown-orange.] 



11. Graucalus striatus (74). 

 [Nipah, 6* , $ , July : iris Naples-yellow.] 



12. Lalage DOMINICA (76). 

 [Dinagat, <?, ? , June.] 



