lOG 



ORIOLUS Linn. ' 



(Sharpe, Cat. Bds.. Ill, ]). 181, 1877.) 



chinensis Ijinn. (p. 20:i.) 



Balabac 

 Basilan 

 Bohol 

 Bongao 

 Cagayancillo 

 Calamianes 

 Calayan 

 Catanduanes 

 Cebu 

 Cuyo 

 Dinagat 

 Fuga 

 Guimaras 

 Lapac 

 Leyte 

 Lubang 

 Luzon 

 Maestro 

 Campo 

 Marinduque 



de 



Masbate 



Mindanao 



Mindoro 



Negros 



Palawan 



Panaon 



Panay 



Romblon 



Samar 



Semirara 



Sibutu 



Sibuyan 



Siquijor 



Sulu 



Tablas 



Tawi Tawi 



Ticao 



Verde 



Sibay 



isabellse Uro))!, P.ull. T5. O. ('., IV, No. XX, Luzon 

 p. ii(1894). 



albiloris Groit, Bull. B. O. C III. p. xlix Luzon 



(1894). 



samarensis Steere, List. Bds. and Mams. Leyte 

 Stporo Exp., p. 17 (1890). 



steerii' (S'/farpr. (p. 213 pt.) Basilan 



\hasilmiicus Grant, Ibis, 1806, p. 532.] 



cinereogenys Bounifi <nnl Worcester, Occ. Bongao 

 Papers Minnosota Acad., I, No. 1, p. Ki 

 (1894). 



Tawi Tawi 



^ Grant makes the extraordinary statement that a glance at the original 

 description and figure of O. steerii is sufficient to show that the Negros bird is 

 the one described (Ibis, Oct., 189G, p. .532) and quotes Cat. Bds. Ill, p. 213. pi. x 

 (1887), in support of his contention that Bourns and I were mistaken in sup- 

 posing that the type of 0. steerii comes from Basilan. He therefore rejects our 

 name of 0. nigrostriatvs for the Negros bird on the ground tliat it is a synonym 

 for 0. steerii and assigns to the Basilan bird, wliicli he agrees with us is quite 

 distinct from the Negros bird, the name O. Itasilduirus. 



Had Grant followed his own suggestion and glanced at the original description 

 of O. steerii which occurs in Trans. Linn. Hoc. Ser. II. AOl. I. p. 329, he would 

 have discovered that two specimens only were collected by Steere; that one 

 specimen (a) was on adult male from Isahela de Basihni. while the other (h) 

 of which the sex was not determined, came from Negros. Also that the type 

 described was an adult male. Furthermore, he seems to forget that the type of 

 this species, which, by the way, still bears a label in Dr. Sharpens well-known 

 hand, is at present in the bird collection of tlie University of Michigan. It was 

 before Dr. Bourns and myself wlien our description of O. 7ugro<itrialiis was 

 written. Tliis type is an adult male from Basilan. Grant's O. hasilaiiieus 

 therefore becomes a synonym of 0. steerii. — Worcester. 



