The following- note was published by the late Marquis of Tweed dale : — “This species has the black 
central abdominal patch much more largely developed than in M. muelleri of Borneo. In no other 
respect does it appear to differ. The extent of pure white on the quills is dependent on sex. Of fourteen 
individuals with the sex noted by Mr. Everett, nine are males and five are females. The primaries of the 
male have a much greater white surface than is found in the primaries of the female. The 6th, 7th, and 
8th primaries are scarcely tipped Avith black ; and the first five primaries have double the amount of 
Avhite that exists on the primaries of the female. On examining Luzon and Negros examples with the 
sexes noted by Dr. B. Meyer, the same character differentiates the sexes. In Bornean individuals of M. 
muelleri (sex determined by Mr. Everett) the sexes can be discriminated by the amount of white on the 
remiges. In M. cueullata some of my examples exhibit a maximum of white on the quills, and the others 
a minimum ; but as none have had their sexes determined by dissection, I am unable to affirm that in that 
species the same law holds good. In two Zamboanga skins the green of the breast and flanks is 
assuming the blue tint so prominent in the large representative form AL steeril.” 
Mr. Everett gives the soft parts as follows: — “ Iris chocolate; bill black; legs brownish grey.” 
Head and neck deep black ; back, scapularies and tertiaries dark grass-green ; lesser wing-coverts shining 
verditer blue ; greater coverts light grass-green ; primaries Avhite, tipped with brownish black ; spurious 
wing and base of the secondaries deep black ; rump and upper tail-coA^rts shining verditer blue ; tail 
deep black, slightly tipped with green ; under surface of the shoulder black ; breast, abdomen and flanks 
green ; centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts blood-red. 
The front figure is of the natural size, the hinder one somewhat reduced. 
[R. B. S.] 
