﻿286 m'gregok. 



Yungipicus f ulvifasciatus Hargitt. 



This small woodpecker is a common species in Basilan. 



Chrysocolaptes lucidus (Scop.). 



Abundant. 



Sarcophanops steerei Sharpe. 



A huge series of this curious species was obtained. A male and a female, 

 taken January 23 and March 1 respectively, are immature and differ from the 

 adult as follows: Throat, white, the black confined to chin and sides of throat 

 except a few black feathers; under tail-coverts, tinged with brown; top of head, 

 blackish, forehead, washed with yellow, some of the adult feathers present ; back 

 and wing-coverts, dark slate-gray widely edged with olive-green; yellow wing- 

 bar paler, the white portion washed with buff; the young male differs from the 

 young female in having a few pale-lavender feathers on throat and breast. 



Pitta fastosa sp. nov. 



Specific characters. — Similar to Pitta moluccensis P. L. S. Miiller but vertical 

 stripe black not dark brown. 



Type.— No. 11.900, J, Bureau of Science Collection; Island of Basilan. P. I.; 

 February 9, 1907; Celestino and Canton. 



Description of type. — Sides of head including lores, cheeks, supereilia. and 

 ear-coverts black connected by wide black collar; wide vertical stripe black. 

 bordered on each side by a wide stripe of fulvous brown, the feathers edged with 

 pale-buff on exterior webs ; back, scapulars, and tertiaries dark green ; rump. 

 upper tail-coverts, and lesser wing-coverts bright ultramarine-blue; chin, black: 

 throat, white; lower throat, breast, abdomen, and flanks ruddy -buff, most intense 

 on breast; vent, under tail-coverts, and middle of abdomen bright-red: tail, black 

 tipped with dull-blue; primaries black, each feather with a white patch, mesial 

 and smallest on first, reaching tip on seventh ; secondaries, black, edged with 

 dull blue on terminal half; alula, primary coverts, axillaries, and wing lining 

 black. Length in flesh, "7.5" inches; wing, 4.65; tail, 1.58; culmen from base, 

 1.10; bill from nostril, 0.72; tarsus. 1.44. 



The type and only specimen was secured near the town of Isabela. Oates * 

 states that Pitta moluccensis is found in the Philippines but Walden 2 makes 

 no remarks on the species in his review of Philippine ornithology and none of the 

 more recent collectors has taken it. 



Pitta erythrogaster Temni. 



A young male was taken March 7. 



Pitta atricapilla Lesson. 

 Several specimens. 



Hirundo javanica Sparr. 



This swallow was building nests in December and January. 



Hemichelidon griseisticta (Swinh.). 



A female was collected January 15 and this species is new to the Basilan list. 



Cyornis philippi nensis Sharpe. 

 A female was preserved. 



Muscicapula basilanica (Sharpe). 

 One female specimen. 



1 Oates: Bds. of British Burmah (1883), 1, 416. 



2 Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 187-89. 



