314 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE [Apr. 1, 



wing-coverts and secondaries with narrow yellow margins, the pri- 

 maries blackish on the inner web, externally dark grass-green with 

 a slight blue shade along the shaft, the first primary black shaded 

 with blue on the outer web ; entire back and rump deep cobalt-blue ; 

 upper tail-coverts green, slightly shaded with yellow on the margins ; 

 tail-feathers dark green, with a narrow margin of yellow at the tip, 

 the under surfare of the tail golden yellow ; head yellowish green, 

 the sides of the face also of this colour ; the under-surface of the 

 body bright grass-green, yellow on the throat and fore neck and 

 passing into green on the breast and abdomen ; under wing-coverts 

 and under tail-coverts of the same green as the breast, with yellow 

 margins; quills ashy blackish below. Total length 15 - 5 inches, 

 culmen 1"8, wing 8"6, tail 64, tarsus 065. 



On comparing T. burbidgii with T. everetti, one is struck at 

 once by the larger size of the former and its yellowish green head, 

 the crown being emerald-green in T. everetti, which also has the 

 wing only 7'55 inches in length (Samar: Mus. Brit.). None of the 

 Sooloo birds, of which there are five in the collections, have the 

 feathers of the mantle edged with blue as in the Samar individual. 



5. Elantjs hypoleucus, Gould. 



Elanas hypoleucus, Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 338 ; Wald. Tr. Z. S. 

 ix. p. 142; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 757. 



An adult specimen : wing 1 1*5 inches. 



[Luzon (Jayor) ; Cebu (Everett) ; Sooloo (Burbidye) ; N.W. 

 Borneo (Treacher).'] 



6. Scops rufescens (Horsf.). 



Scops rufescens, Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 102. 



One specimen. 



This bird seems to me to differ slightly from Bornean and 

 Malaccan examples in having a much darker face, the ear-coverts 

 shaded with black. I do not, however, propose to found a new 

 species on a single example, and must wait for more specimens. 

 The measurements of the Sooloo bird are as follows : — Total length 

 7 inches, culmen - 7, wing 4 - 8, tail 2-6, tarsus 0*85. It will be 

 seen that they are a good deal inferior to those of the type of Scops 

 mantis, as given by me in the ' Catalogue.' 



7. Cucultjs fucatus, Peale. 



Cuculus fucatus, Peale, TJ.S. Expl. Exp. Zool. 1848, p. 136. 



C. tenuirostris, Less.; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 244. 



This Cuckoo may be Cuculus himalayanus, which has recently 

 been shot in Labuan by Governor Ussher ; but it is difficult to 

 decide without seeing a specimen. At present the species is only 

 known from the plate and description given by Peale, who procured 

 it on the island of Mangsi. 



8. Artamtjs leucorhynchus (L.). 



Artamus leucorhynchus,^ alden, P. Z. S. ix. p. 1/4; Sharpe, Tr. 



