1877.] BIRDS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 539 



J. Grass-green, below lighter. Forehead and sinciput bright 

 blood-red ; vertex and occiput green, washed with golden yellow ; a 

 narrow band, separating the red sinciput from the golden vertex, 

 yellow. A golden mark across the nape. Uropygium and upper 

 tail-coverts dark scarlet. A decided line round the mouth and base 

 of mandible verditer-blue. Breast yellowish green. Outer webs of 

 quills dark green, inner black, above ; quills underneath black, most 

 of the inner webs of primaries being blue, and all of the inner webs 

 of the remaining quills. Rectrices dark green, blue underneath. 

 Short under wing-coverts dark green, longer blue. Bill coral-red. 



2 . Like the male, but differs in having the vertex and occiput 

 green, and no blue round the mouth. 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill from nostril. 



This species above closely resembles L. regulus, ex Negros, but 

 differs in wanting the red pectoral patch and in having blue feathers 

 at the base of the mandible. The female only differs from that of 

 L. regulus in having no blue feathers round the mouth, though a few 

 are present at the top of the throat. 



Dr. O. Finsch has remarked (Ibis, 1874, p. 208) that L. chryso- 

 notus has no orange mark on the nape ; but I find this mark very 

 conspicuous in a specimen belonging to my series of the species, ex 

 Zebu. 



4. Haliastur intermedius. 



Haliastur intermedius, Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 28 ; Walden, t. c. 

 p. 142. no. 17. 



[No. 373, c? . Zebu. Eyes browu. Shot from the ship at the 

 anchorage at Zebu. 



No. 374, <S . Zebu. Eyes brown. Stomach contained offal. 



No. 398, c? . Malanipa, Eyes yellow. 



No. 434, c? . Pasananca. Eyes brown.] 



Not previously recorded from these three localities. 



5. Chrysocolaptes lucidxjs. 



Picus lucidus, Scop, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 89. no. 51 (1786); 

 Walden, t. c. p. 147. no. 32. 



[No. 430, d'. Pasananca. Eyes red.] 



Unless C. maculiceps, Sharpe {t. c), belongs to this species, this 

 Mindanao specimen appe"~3 to be the first that has been brought to 

 Europe since Sonnerat's day ; for now that I have the oppor- 

 tunity of comparing it with C. haematrihon, I doubt the correct- 

 ness of the identification of Jagor's young bird ex Luzon by Dr. 

 v. Martens (J. f. Orn. 1866, p. 20, no. 110), and for the reason 

 that, first, C. lucidus is a representative form of C. hcematribon, and 

 secondly, if a Luzon bird, it would have been found by some one of 

 the collectors who have well worked the vicinity of Manila since 

 Sonnerat collected in its neighbourhood. If this be so, Sonnerat 

 must have obtained his own type specimen and that of Buffou, not 



