NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM THE 
ISLAND OF TABLAS. 
By Ricwarp C. McGrecor. 
The birds of Tablas have heretofore been known only from the collec- 
tion made on this island in 1892 by Mr. Worcester, aided by one native 
collector. Two of the new species discovered by Worcester in Romblon, 
namely, Lole cinereiceps and Dicaeum intermedium, were found by him 
to inhabit Tablas also, while two additional new species, Rhipidura sauli 
and Chibia menagei, were discovered, the latter being by far the most 
remarkable representative of its genus known to inhabit the Philippine 
Islands. 
As Tablas is an island of some size and still has a considerable area 
of undisturbed forest remaining on the slopes of the high hills and low 
mountains in its interior, it was hoped that other new species might be 
discovered there, especially as Worcester was ill during the greater part 
of his stay on the island and was consequently unable to do any collecting 
himself. 
Two assistant collectors from the Bureau of Science were accordingly 
sent to Tablas, but although they worked diligently from August 15 
to September 30, 1905, they did not discover any new species. 
They did secure a fairly good series of specimens belonging to all 
of the new species discovered by Worcester and increased those known 
to inhabit Tablas by four, namely, Osmotreron avillaris, Gallicrex 
cinerea, Pernis ptilonorynchus, and Salangana marginata, 
LIST OF SPECIES COLLECTED. 
Osmotreron axillaris (Bp.). 
Three specimens. 
Phapitreron nigrorum Sharpe. 
Eleven specimens. 
Leucotreron leclancheri (Bp.). 
Six specimens. 
Muscadivora znea (Linn.). 
The “balud” of Tablas probably belongs to the variety calybura which 
seems to be fairly distinct from true enea of Borneo. 
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