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230 ORNITHOLOGY. 



" Our specimen was killed on the thirtj-first of January, near Sam- 

 buanga, in the Island of Mindanao. It sits crosswise on the small 

 branches of trees and bushes, and is very active in taking insects on 

 the wing. The clear sunlight at three o'clock in the afternoon did 

 not appear to incommode it, or others observed at the same time." 



The specimens in the collection of the Expedition present no im- 

 portant differences from the figures in Mr. Gould's beautiful Mono- 

 graph, above cited. This species appears to be peculiar to the Philip- 

 pines, and is very handsomely represented in Mr. Gould's Monograph 

 of this family, cited above. 



5. Tribe S CAB'S OEES. 



1. Family PSITTACID^.— The Parrots. 



1. Genus PIONUS, Waglei- (1830). 



1. PlONUS COBALTINTJS {Masseild). 



Pdttacus cohaltinns, Mass. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 74. 

 Psittacus menstruus, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 345 (1788) ? 



Buff. PI. Enl. 584 ? 



A single specimen in the collection of the Expedition is exactly in 

 the plumage described as a distinct species by Messrs. Massena and 

 Souance, as above, and we have seen others. We cannot confirm this 

 distinctive designation, but believe this bird to be a stage of plumage 

 only of Psittacus menstruus, a common species of South America. 



2. Genus TANYGNATHUS, War/Ier, Abhand. Akad. Miinchen, 1832, p. 501. 



1. Tantgnathus pileatus {Scopoli). 



Psittacus inleatus, Scop. Fl. et Faun. Insub. p. 86 (1786). 

 Psittacus marginatus, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 324 (1788). 



