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danao, by Dr. E. A. M earns, U. S. A.) is very similar to the adult, 

 differing but slightly from the old birds, 1 and Hartert 2 says the 

 young are " perfectly similar to the adult." 



Mr. Goss has sent me the following note about the specimen de- 

 scribed above : " The bird was found about the first of May, of this 

 \ ear, on the west side of the mountain. It was killed in flight, and 

 was the only individual of its kind we saw. The natives spoke of 

 some caves away below, where the larger edible-nest-building birds 

 were plentiful, but as they were some four days journey we did not 

 visit them. So far as we knew, there were no caves near by." 



Collocalia dodgei is named in honor of Mr. H. D. Dodge, of New 

 York, who was Mr. Goss' companion on his recent expedition. 



1 McGregor (Bull. Philippine Mus., No. 3, 1904, p. 9) writes: "The young 

 are very much like the adults, but the upper parts are strongly glossed with 

 green, while in the adult the wings and tail have a dark steel blue gloss." 



2 Catalogue Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, p. 509. 



