472 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke ow Birds 



107. LiMNOB^xus Fuscus (Linn.) ; Sliarpe^ Cat. B, Brit. 

 Mas. xxiii. p. 146 (1894). 



Males of the Ruddy Crake^ which are the first Mr. White- 

 head has sent home. 



108. tEgialitis dubius (Scop.); Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 266. 

 Mr. Whitehead has obtained examples of a Little Ringed 



Plover about which he makes the following remarks : — "^'I send 

 you a small resident Ringed Plover ; you will notice first that 

 the sexes are alike in plumage, secondly that they are in full 

 breeding- dress when birds of the northern species are in their 

 winter (or dull) plumage, and that they are not ^. peronii." 

 I have examined these specimens carefully, as well as some 

 obtained by Mr. Everett from other islands of the group, 

 and I find that they are identical with examples from India 

 and other localities. It is usual to find that when a certain 

 number of birds of a species are resident — as in the present 

 instance — they assume their summer plumage sooner and 

 more fully than migratory birds of the same species. 



109. ToTANUs GLAREOLA. (Linn.) ; Seebohm, Monog. of the 

 Charadriidse, p. 365 (1887). 



A female of the Wood-Sandpiper on migration. 



110. Tachybaptes philippinensis (Bonnat.) ; Walden, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 245 (1875). 



The Philippine Dabchick in winter plumage completes the 

 present list. 



XXXVII. — On some Birds from the Island of Negros, Philip- 

 pines. (Second Contribution.) By Wm. Eagle Clarke, 

 F.L.S. 



My friend Mr. John Maclauchlan, Director of the Dundee 

 Museum, has submitted to me for identification another 

 collection of birds from the east coast of the Island of 

 Negros, made by Mr. W. A. Keay, between the middle of 

 November 1894 and the end of April 1895, and presented 

 by that gentleman to the Museum. 



