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Show 944 MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON THE [Nov. 19, 23. HALCYON WINCHELLI. Halcyon winchelli, Sharpe, Tr. L. S. (2) Zool. i. p. 318, t. xlvii. [Zamboanga, 5, April: iris dark brown ; bill black ; the basal half of mandible white ; feet light greyish-green.] I have not been able to compare the Zamboanga birds with the Basilau type ; but the female agrees well with Mr. Sharpe's description and plate. A second example (sex unrecorded) differs in having the whole under surface pure white. 24. CALIALCYON COROMANDA (46). [Zamboanga, $, March.] The discovery of this species by Mr. Everett at Zamboanga removes all doubts of its being an inhabitant of the Philippines. 25. ACTENOIDES HOMBRONI (48). [Zamboanga, 3, April: iris brown; bill orange-red; the culmen blackish ; feet dirty greenish orange.] In the perfectly adult male the crescentic pectoral markings disappear. 26. XANTHOL^MA HiEMACEPHALA (50). [Zamboanga, 3, March and April.] 27. MACROPTERYX COMATUS (52). [Zamboanga, 3, April.] 28. CHATURA PICINA, sp. n. (Plate LIX.) [Zamboanga, 5 , April.] Black with a blue gloss, greenish in some lights. Chin, throat, and larger under wing-coverts pure white. Wing 6'37; tail 1*25. 29. LYNCORNIS MINDANENSIS, sp. n. [Zamboanga, 3, April: iris warm brown ; feet purplish brown.] Typical L. macrotis (ex Luzon) has the crown, forehead, ear-tufts, and nape rufous brown, of almost the same shade as in L. temminckii. The three examples of the species of Lyncornis which inhabits the vicinity of Zamboanga, sent by Mr. Everett, differ from L. macrotis by having the crown, nape, forehead, and ear-tufts dark greyish-brown, and not rufous, by all the browns of the plumage being much darker, and by the wing being shorter. Wing 9*90. 30. CAPRIMULGUS MANILLENSIS (55). [Zamboanga, $, April.] Compared by Mr. Sharpe with the type. 31. BATRACHOSTOMUS SEPTIMUS. [Batrachostomus Septimus, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 542, no. 13. [Zamboanga, 3, April: iris orange-yellow; bill light horn- |