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skins, of which three were perfectly new to science. During 

 the first month of this expedition Mr. Whitehead collected 

 near some mountains iu the neighbourhood of Tobacco, in 

 the province of Albay, which is situated in the extreme south- 

 east of Luzon. There, however, he obtained very few speci- 

 mens, for, being a great hemp-growing district, most of the 

 forests had been cleared and bird life was extremely scarce, but 

 it was here that he obtained all his specimens of the splendid 

 green Fruit-Pigeon [Carpophaga j^oliocephala) now recorded 

 for the first time from Luzon. Thence he shifted his camp to 

 the foot of the Mayon volcano, remaining there for some three 

 weeks ; but there again birds were far from common, though it 

 was on this collecting-ground that the yellow-green Silver-eye 

 {Zosterops luzonica) was obtained. During the whole of this 

 trip, which spread over the last part of July and the months 

 of August and September, almost incessant rain greatly 

 increased the difficulties of collecting ; and, to add to Mr. 

 Whitehead's troubles, most of the birds were iu full moult at 

 this season and difficult to make into good cabinet-skins, 

 though specially interesting from our point of view as 

 showing the changes of plumages. 



In the beginning of September the first of the migrants 

 had begun to arrive, in the shape of the Asiatic Golden 

 Plover, which still had the greater part of the breast mixed 

 with the black breeding-plumage; but Mr. Whitehead did 

 not devote much time to the Waders, and on the 7tli of 

 September he set sail in a small boat for the adjacent island of 

 Catanduanes, and after collecting there for a month returned 

 to Manila. The only animals obtained were a few Bats, and 

 we hear that Mammals are extremely scarce in every part 

 of Luzon that Mr. Whitehead has visited. Of Reptiles and 

 Fish a small collection was made, but contained nothing of 

 special interest ; and there was also a considerable collection 

 of Insects belonging to various orders. 



Mr. Whitehead has made some interesting remarks on the 

 habits of Rhabdornis mystacalis, from which it appears tliat 

 this bird's mode of life and habits are extremely like those of 

 the Spider-hunters (Arachnothera), the greater part of its 



