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Show 1877.] BIRDS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 539 cf. Grass-green, below lighter. Forehead and sinciput bright blood-red; vertex and occiput green, washed with golden yellow ; a narrow band, separating the red sinciput from the golden vertex, yellow. A golden mark across the nape. Uropygium and upper tail-coverts dark scarlet. A decided line round the mouth and base of mandible verditer-blue. Breast yellowish green. Outer webs of quills dark green, inner black, above ; quills underneath black, most of the inner webs of primaries being blue, and all of the inner webs of the remaining quills. Rectrices dark green, blue underneath. Short under wing-coverts dark green, longer blue. Bill coral-red. 5. Like the male, but differs in having the vertex and occiput green, and no blue round the mouth. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill from nostril. in. in. in. in. 6. 3*62 2*12 0*37 0*43 ?. 3*56 2*00 0*37 0*43 This species above closely resembles L. regulus, ex Negros, but differs in wanting the red pectoral patch and in having blue feathers at the base of the mandible. The female only differs from that of L. regulus in having no blue feathers round the mouth, though a few are present at the top of the throat. Dr. O. Finsch has remarked (Ibis, 1874, p. 208) that L. chryso-notus has no orange mark on the nape; but I find this mark very conspicuous in a specimen belonging to m y series of the species, ex Zebu. 4. HALIASTUR INTERMEDIUS. Haliastur intermedius, Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 28 ; Walden, t. p. 142. no. 17- [No. 373, S • Zebu. Eyes brown. Shot from the ship at the anchorage at Zebu. No. 374, cf • Zebu. Eyes brown. Stomach contained offal. No. 398, o* . Malanipa." Eyes yellow. No. 434, o* • Pasananca. Eyes brown.] Not previously recorded from these three localities. 5. CHRYSOCOLAPTES LUCIDUS. Picus lucidus, Scop, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 89. no. 51 (1786); Walden, t. c. p. 147. no. 32. [No. 430, eS. Pasananca. Eyes red.] Unless C. maculiceps, Sharpe (t. c), belongs to this species, this Mindanao specimen appears to be the first that has been brought to Europe since Sonnerat's day; for now that I have the opportunity of comparing it with C. hcematribon, I doubt the correctness of the identification of Jagor's young bird ex Luzon by Dr. v. Martens (J. f. Orn. 1866, p. 20. no. 110), and for the reason that, first, C. lucidus is a representative form of C. hcematribon, and secondlv, if a Luzon bird, it would have been found by some one of the collectors who have well worked the vicinity of Manila since Sonnerat collected in its neighbourhood. If this be so, Sonnerat must have obtained his own type specimen and that of Buffon, not |