yi8 THE MARaUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [DeC. 4, 



region the same, with an ochreous tint. Upper back and intersca- 

 pulars dark green. First primary dark brown, very narrowly mar- 

 gined with green on outer web ; remaining primaries brown, with 

 the whole of the outer web green, and, towards the ends, some of 

 the inner webs. Secondaries, and tertiaries above, green. All the 

 wing-coverts green, narrowly margined with yellow. Quills under- 

 neath brown. Under wing-coverts green and yellowish green. Rec- 

 trices above green, like quills ; below pale golden brown. Middle 

 and lower back and uropygitim deep torquoise-blue, not sky-blue. 

 Upper tail-coverts green. Bill in dried skin white. 



Wing 7 inches, tail 5, tarsus 0"75, bill from gape 1-00. 



[Butuan, $ , May. Iris orange.] 



Only one example is sent by Mr. Everett ; but while very close 

 to T. albirostris, Wallace, of Celebes, it can be readily distinguished 

 by the deep tone of the blue of the back and its smaller dimensions. 

 An example from the Philippine island of Samar, obtained by 

 Cuming, is in the British Museum, and is alluded to by Dr. O. 

 Finsch (Pap. ii. p. 360) as being possibly T. muelleri of Celebes. 

 Mr. Sharpe, who has compared T. everetti with Cuming's Samar 

 example, writes : — " T. everetti certainly seems to me to be exactly 

 the same species as the bird marked T. sumatranus by Gray. It 

 has the same blue edgings to the interscapular feathers. Our bird 

 has one side of the upper breast blue-edged, which yours has not." 

 Mr. Sharpe adds that the British-Museum skin has the bill coral- 

 red ; so that probably this Philippine species, which is a repre- 

 sentative form of T. muelleri, has either a red or a white bill, like the 

 Celebesian species (conf. Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 31). The blue 

 edgings on the upper breast of the Samar bird do not occur in T. 

 muelleri. 



5. Cyclopsitta lunxjlata (4). 



[Butuan, S, May. Iris dark brown; bill black, the base of 

 maxilla light grey ; feet greenish.] 



Seven examples from Snrigao and three from Butuan are sent by 

 Mr. Everett, and they cannot be specifically separated from Luzon 

 individuals. Only one is marked $ , and it has a lunated collar 

 and crescentic markings on the lower back ; some of the necklace- 

 plumes blue on their under surface. Five examples are of adults 

 (marked c? ) with blue collars, the lower back bright yellow-green 

 and no crescentic markings. Four (marked (S ) are immature birds, 

 with mixed blue and lunulated collars, and with traces, more or less, 

 of crescentic markings on the lower back. These last examples 

 establish the identity of C. lunulata and C. loxias ; but the question 

 whether the lunulata plumage belongs to adult females as well as to 

 immature males still remains open. Some of the collar-plumes of the 

 only female in the collection being blue underneath perhaps indicates 

 a state of transition to the loxias dress. None of the adult males 

 have the whole face, lores, and ophthalmic region blue, as is the case 

 jn two Luzon individuals killed in January. 



