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Phyllergates heterolaemus . 

 Cephalophoneus suluensis. 

 Hyloterpe apoensis. 

 Pardaliparus elegans mindanensis. 

 Dicaeum davao. 

 ^Ethopyga boltoni. 

 Cyrtostomus dinagatensis. 

 Anthreptes cagayenensis. 

 Lamjyrocorax today en sis. 



The following-named species should be added to the catalogue 

 of Philippine birds, by Worcester and Bourns, published in 



1898 * : 



Limonites minutus (Leisler). 



LITTLE STINT. 



I collected an adult male (No. 191,416, U. S. National Museum) of this 

 stint at Zamboanga, Mindanao, P. I., December 17, 1903. 



Hydralector gallinaceus (Temminck). 



COMB-CRESTED JACANA. Pah-pan-ook' (Moros of the Rio Grande Valley). 



This is an abundant species of the Rio Grande Valley of southern 

 Mindanao. I collected a female specimen (No. 191,917, U. . National 

 Museum) on the Buluan River, connecting lakes Buluan and Liguasan, 

 Mindanao, P. I., May 27, 1904. 



Plegadis falcinellus (Linnaeus). 



GLOSSY IBIS. 



Great numbers of glossy ibises frequent the lakes and rivers of Min 

 danao. A female (No. 192,079, U. S. National Museum) was shot by Cap 

 tain William D. Davis, 17th Infantry, U.S. Army, on an estuary near Seran- 

 aya, Rio Grande Valley, Mindanao, P. I., March 14, 1904. Captain Frank 

 R. McCoy also brought me a specimen which I did not preserve. There is a 

 mounted specimen in the Jesuit Museum, at Manila. 



Herodias timoriensis (Cuvier). 



AUSTRALIAN WHITE EGRET. 



Captain Frank R. McCoy shot a specimen (No. 192,074, U. S. National 

 Museum) at Varicella, Upper Agusan River, Mindanao, P. I., May 9, 1904 ; 



* Contributions to Philippine Ornithology, Part I. A List of the Birds known to inhabit 

 the Philippine and Palawan Islands, showing their distribution within the limits of the 

 two groups, Proc. U, S. Kat. Mus., Vol. XX, No. 1134; 1898, pp. 549 to 625, with maps. 



