258 DR. F. H. H. GUILLEMARD ON BIKDS COLLliCTED [Mlf. 17, 



a-c. <S . Sulu Island. 



d-f. $ . Sulu Island. 



Bill leaden blue, almost lavender; iris biown; tarsus black. 

 Length 19'0 centims. ; wing 13"4-13"8 centims. Sexes alike in 

 plumage. 



This is one of the commonest birds in the Sulu Islands. It is 

 to be seen throughout the day hawking for insects ; its square tail 

 and sharp-pointed, though short wings rendering it a noticeable 

 object seen even at a great distance. Now and again it rests u[)on 

 a dead bough, two or three individuals sitting huddled up close 

 together. It keeps up an incessant twittering cry, and while in the 

 air often wheels about for a considerable time without any movement 

 of the wings. It is one of the last of the diurnal birds to betake 

 itself to roost, and can still be seen hawking when the darkness has 

 fairly set in. 



21. Artamides pollens (Salvadori). 



Graucalus pollens, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Geuov. vi. p. 7.5 ; 

 id. P. Z.S. 187^^, p. 87. 



Artamides pollens, Sharpe, Cat. B. vol. iv. p. 13. 



Hab. Ke Bandan, Moluccas (Beccari); Lapac Island, Sulu 

 Archipelago {Guillemard). 



a. Lapac Island. 



Iris slate-coloured ; bill and feet black. Length about 32" 1 centims.; 

 wing 18-0 centims. ; tail 16-0 centims. ; bill from gape 3-9 centims.; 

 tarsus 2-5 centims. 



This example, when compared with one in the British Museum, is 

 somewhat darker on the cheeks, ear-coverts, and lores, and appa- 

 rently smaller in all its measurements. The differences, however, 

 are hardly sufficient to lead me to separate it specifically from A. p)ollens 

 from the Ke group, especially as 1 have but one individual. That 

 this species should be found at such a great distance from the 

 locality whence it was first recorded is very curious. A large series 

 of any species of Graucalus is, however, seldom seen in collections ; 

 they are somewhat rare birds and generally very shy, and it is not 

 improbable that we may, before long, obtain this species from some 

 of the intermediate localities. 



22. LaLAGE DOMINICA (Mvill.). 



Tardus dominicus, L. S. Miiller, Suppl. p. 14^, no. 56, ex PI. Enl. 

 273, f. 2. 



Lalage dominica, Wald. Tr. Z. S. vol. ix. part ii. p. 178 ; Sharpe, 

 Tr. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. vol. i. p. 324. 



Lalage terat. Cat. B. iv. p. 95. 



Hab. Zebu, Guimaras {Meyer) ; Panay, Mindanao (Sfeere) ; 

 Basilan, Negros, Leyte, Bohol, and Luzon (Everett) ; Sulu (Guille- 

 mard) ; Borneo {S. Miiller). 



a, b. (S . Sulu Island. 



c. juv. 9 . Sulu Island. 



The immature bird has the head and scapulars grey, the former 



