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Phj/Ucrgates hetcrohnn us. 

 Cephalophoiicus sulKcnsis. 

 Hylotcrpe apocnsis . 

 PardaJiparvs elega ».s' tiriiuJa nrnsis. 

 Dicfeum darao. 

 jEthopyga holtoni. 

 Cyrtostomvs dinagateihsis . 

 Anthirptes cagayenends . 

 Lamprocorax t.ofhii/cnsis . 



Tlie following-named species shonli I l>c added to the catalogue 

 of Philippine Vnrds, hy ^^V»l•(■(^st(M• and lV)nrns, pnl)lished in 

 18V)8 * : 



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 (Tennninck). 



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



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

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



Merodias timoriensis (Cuvier). 



AUSTRALIAN WHITE EGRET. 



Captain Frank R. ^NlcCoy 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. Sal. ilus., Vol. XX, No. 1134, 1898, pp. 54'J to 62.5, with maps. 



