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Show 340 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [Mar. 19, species by the contour of the casque. Thriponax pectoralis another species, the deviation of which from T. javensis of Luzon is probably owing to isolation. In Arachnothera flammifera Mr. Everett has added another Malayan genus to theThilippine area. 1. CACATUA H^EMATUROPYGIA (1). [Amparo, <5 2 > July-] 2. TANYGNATHUS LUZONENSIS (3). [S. Leyte, d, September.] 3. LORICULUS HARTLAUBI (7)1 [Amparo, <S 2 > July-] I provisionally identify a series of nine examples of the South-Leyte Loriculus with JL. hartlaubi until further research establishes the permanency of the characters whereby these Leyte birds differ from those of North Mindanao and Dinagat. Five individuals are examples of the male bird in apparently adult plumage. They differ from true L. hartlaubi in having a much smaller orange-red pectoral plastron, and in its not running up to the naked chin, but stopping short some way below, so that the upper throat is uniform green. Above, the back is green, and not golden, nor is that of the female. The dimensions are equal. 4. ASTUR TRIVIRGATUS (11). [Amparo, 2 > J11^-] In Mr. J. H. Gurney's opinion this Leyte example is in immature plumage, and probably belongs to a male. 5. SPILORNIS HOLOSPILUS (16). [S. Leyte, S 2 > September.] 6. HALIASTUR INTERMEDIUS (17). [S. Leyte, <5 2 > September.] 7. THRIPONAX PECTORALIS, n. sp. [S. Leyte, <$ 2 > September.] Like T. javensis, but differs in having the feathers of the chin, throat, sides of head and neck white, broadly centred with a median black stripe, and in the fulvous-white colouring of the abdomen covering the breast, each pectoral plume being centred with black. 8. MEROPS PHILIPPINUS (35). [S. Leyte, c$ 2 > September.] 9. MEROPS BICOLOR (36). [S. Leyte, <-? $ , September.] Two examples in mature plumage, two immature; the chestnut head and back in the latter mixed with green, and the middle pair of rectrices not fully developed. |
