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Show 108 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [JAN. 15, 5. EURYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS (37). [a. Dinagat, 3, June. b. Nipah, $, July.] 6. PELARGOPSIS GIGANTEA. Pelargopsis gigantea, Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiii. p. 123, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 541, 822. [Dinagat, $>, 3, June.] Neither example in full plumage ; and both are not separable from the Butuan male observed upon /. c. Butuan, Pasananca, Malanipa, and these Dinagat individuals appear to belong to a small race of P. gigantea. 7. CEYX ARGENTATA. (Plate VI.) Ceyx argentata, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 533, $ (1 December 1877). [Dinagat, 2 , June. Iris brown ; bill black ; feet pale reddish.] 2 . Chin, throat, upper breast, abdomen, ventral region, major under wing-coverts, and thigh-coverts pure white. Cheeks, sides of head, and ear-coverts black. Lower breast and flanks black, washed with deep blue. Rectrices and under tail-coverts black. Plumage above black ; a bold supercilium commencing above the eye and running into the occipital crest, formed by the component plumes being tipped with pale silvery blue ; many of the feathers of the vertex minutely tipped with silvery blue. Occipital crest tipped with pale silvery bluish green, or silvery blue, or the two together. Dorsal plumage and lengthened upper tail-coverts black at base, then silvery bluish green, then pale silvery blue. Wings black. Major coverts each with a terminal silvery-green spot. Loral spot white ; an isolated tuft on the sides of neck, white tipped with creamy fulvous. Bill black. Wing 2*62 inches, tail 1*37, tarsus 0*45, culmen 1*50. 8. SAUROPATIS CHLORIS (47). [Dinagat, 2, June.] 9. PYRRHOCENTOR MELANOPS (65). [Nipah, 2, July.] 10. PENELOPIDES AFFINIS. Penelopides affinis, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) p. 534; P.Z.S. 1877, p. 824. [Dinagat, c-T,June: iris crimson, a. $, June: iris rather dark brown-orange.] 11. GRAUCALUS STRIATUS (74). [Nipah, 3, $, July: iris Naples-yellow.] 12. LALAGE DOMINICA (76). [Dinagat, 3, $, June.] |