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Show 314 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE [Apr. 1, wing-coverts and secondaries with narrow yellow margins, the primaries blackish on the inner web, externally dark grass-green with a slight blue shade along the shaft, the first primary black shaded with blue on the outer web ; entire back and rump deep cobalt-blue ; upper tail-coverts green, slightly shaded with yellow on the margins; tail-feathers dark green, with a narrow margin of yellow at the tip, the under surfare of the tail golden yellow ; head yellowish green, the sides of the face also of this colour ; the under-surface of the body bright grass green, yellow on the throat and fore neck and passing into green on the breast and abdomen ; under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts of the same green as the breast, with yellow margins; quills ashy blackish below. Total length 15*5 inches, culmen 1*8, wing 8*6, tail 6 4 , tarsus 0*65. On comparing T. burbidgii with T. everetti, one is struck at once by the larger size of the former and its yellowish green head, the crown being emerald-green in T. everetti, which also has the wing only 7*55 inches in length (Samar: Mus. Brit.). None of the Sooloo birds, of which there are five in the collections, have the feathers of the mantle edged with blue as in the Samar individual. 5. ELANUS HYPOLEUCUS, Gould. Elanus hypoleucus, Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 338 ; Wald. Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 142; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 757. An adult specimen : wing 11*5 irtches. [Luzon (Jagor); Cebu (Everett); Sooloo (Burbidge) ; N.W. Borneo (Treacher).'] 6. SCOPS RUFESCENS (Horsf.). Scops rufescens, Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 102. One specimen. This bird seems to me to differ slightly from Bornean and Malaccan examples in having a much darker face, the ear-coverts shaded with black. I do not, however, propose to found a new species on a single example, and must wait for more specimens. The measurements of the Sooloo bird are as follows :-Total length 7 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 4*8, tail 2*6, tarsus 0*85. It will be seen that they are a good deal inferior to those of the type of Scops mantis, as given by m e in the ' Catalogue.' 7. CUCULUS FUCATUS, Peale. Cuculus fucatus, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp. Zool. 1848, p. 136. C. tenuirostris, Less.; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 244. This Cuckoo may be Cuculus himalayanus, which has recently been shot in Labuan by Governor Ussher; but it is difficult to decide without seeing a specimen. At present the species is only known from tbe plate and description given by Peale, who procured it on the island of Mangsi. 8. ARTAMUS LEUCORHYNCHUS (L.). Artamus leucorhynchus, Walden, P. Z. S. ix. p. 174 ; Sharpe, Tr. |