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Show 258 DR. F. H. H. GUILLEMARD ON BIRDS COLLECTED [Mar. 17, a-c. cS . Sulu Island. d-f. 2- Sulu Island. Bill leaden blue, almost lavender; iris brown; tarsus black. Length 19*0 centims.; wing 13*4-13*8 centims. Sexes alike in plumage. This is one of the commonest birds in the Sulu Islands. It is to be seen throughout the day hawking for insects ; its square tail and sharp-pointed, though short wings rendering it a noticeable object seen even at a great distance. Now and again it rests upon a dead bough, two or three individuals sitting huddled up close together. It keeps up an incessant twittering cry, and while in the air often wheels about for a considerable time without any movement of the wings. It is one of the last of the diurnal birds to betake itself to roost, and can still be seen hawking when the darkness ha3 fairly set in. 21. ARTAMIDES POLLENS (Salvadori). Graucalus pollens, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vi. p. 75; id. P.Z.S. 1878, p. 87. Artamides pollens, Sharpe, Cat. B. vol. iv. p. 13. Hab. Ke Bandan, Moluccas (Beccari); Lapac Island, Sulu Archipelago (Guillemard). a. Lapac Island. Iris slate-coloured ; bill and feet black. Length about 32* 1 centims.; wing 18*0 centims.; tail 16*0 centims. ; bill from gape 3*9 centims.; tarsus 2*5 centims. This example, when compared with one in the British Museum, is somewhat darker on the cheeks, ear-coverts, and lores, and apparently smaller in all its measurements. The differences, however, are hardly sufficient to lead me to separate it specifically from A. pollens from the K e group, especially as 1 have but one individual. That this species should be found at such a great distance from the locality whence it was first recorded is very curious. A large series of any species of Graucalus is, however, seldom seen in collections ; they are somewhat rare birds and generally very shy, and it is not improbable that we may, before long, obtain this species from some of the intermediate localities. 22. LALAGE DOMINICA (Mull.). Turdus dominicus, L. S. Midler, Suppl. p. 145, no. 56, ex PI. Enl. 273, f. 2. Lalage dominica, Wald. Tr. Z. S. vol. ix. part ii. p. 178 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. vol. i. p. 324. Lalage terat, Cat. B. iv. p. 95. Hab. Zebu, Guimaras (Meyer); Panay, Mindanao (Steere); Basilan, Negros, Leyte, Bohol, and Luzon (Everett); Sulu (Guillemard) ; Borneo (S. Midler). a, b. J . Sulu Island. c. juv. 2 • Sulu Island. The immature bird has the head and scapulars grey, the former |