BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE ISLAND OF POLILLO. 109 



A. Celestino. Length, about 400 millimeters; wing, 235; tail, 170; 

 chord of culmen from front of cere, 37 ; bill from nostril, 36 ; tarsus, 18. 

 Upper mandible bright red, light yellow near the tip; lower mandible 

 light orange-yellow ; feet black. 



Description. — Top and sides of head green; hind neck, sides of neck, 

 chin, and throat golden-yellow, the yellow collar being quite distinct from 

 the green occiput ; interscapulars dark green, edged with blue ; entire back 

 and rump blue ; tail-coverts green ; rectrices gTeen above, the tips narrowly 

 golden-yellow, shafts black, below golden-yellow, shafts g'ray; exposed 

 portions of wing-feathers green, shafts black, and more or less of the 

 inner webs black ; first primary with the entire inner web as well as much 

 of the outer web black ; median and greater secondary-coverts conspicuously 

 edged with golden-yellow; below, wing-quills and greater under wing- 

 coverts slate-black, very narrowly edged with yellow; lesser coverts, axil- 

 lars, abdomen, flanks, and thighs green. 



Female.— Eo. 7175, Polillo, Island of Polillo, October 31, 1909. Mc- 

 Gregor and Celestino. The female is similar to the male. Length, 400 

 millimeters; wing, 230; tail, 165; chord of culmen from anterior margin 

 of cere, 35; bill from nostril, 35; tarsus, 20. Bill white; iris, bright 

 red ; legs and feet dirty, pale blue ; nails horn-gray. 



Preer's parrot was not detected until after the typhoon of October 24 

 and then it was found feeding in "camansi" (Artocarpus camansi Blanco) 

 and "eatmon" (Dillenia pMlippinensis Eolfe). The individuals observed 

 by us were silent, thus presenting a marked contrast to the noisy Philippine 

 green parrot, T. lucionensis (Linnseus). This species is named for Dr. 

 Paul C. Preer, director of the Bureau of Science, Manila. 

 Loriculus philippensis (P. L. S. Miiller). 



Our efforts to secure specimens of this species met with little success. 

 Of the two males collected, one only has the red plastron on the breast. 

 This specimen resembles L. philippensis of Luzon, except that there is 

 no trace of orange behind the red forehead; this, if constant, would be 

 a perfectly good specific character, but as it may be due to immaturity, 

 I shall not attempt to found a species upon it. 



CORACIID/E. 



Eurystomus orientalis (Linnaeus). 

 Bare. 



ALCEDINID/E. 

 Pelargopsis gigantea Walden. 



Fairly common; one would expect to find P. goulcli Sharpe in Polillo, 

 but a male Pelargopsis, collected October 2, is certainly P. gigantea, the 

 light-colored species. 

 Alcedo bengalensis Gmelin. 



Fairly abundant. 



