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he cannot bring forward any fact to base this opinion upon. 



Von Martens (J. f. 0. 1866, p. 28) mentions a Tigor- 

 Bittern from the Philippines (Bibliotheca militar, Manila) 

 under the name of Ardea (Botaurus) philippensis Gm., but 

 does not mention if the specimen has the occipital crest 

 red or black, and therefore it is undecided to which of 

 both species the bird belongs. 



Hartlaub and Finsch (P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 4, 8) enume- 

 rate Nycticorax goisagi from the Pelew Islands and add — 

 on what reason they do not say — that the Philippines 

 are the transitional station for this bird (p. 4). One can 

 thus conclude that aforesaid authors consider this bird as 

 a migrant which , on its trip from Japan to the Pelew 

 Islands , would have a stop on the Philippines. 



G. R. Gray (Handl. III. pp. 32 , 33) enumerates Botau- 

 rus limnophUax as coming from the Philippines , and Goisa- 

 kius melanolophus , which he considers identical with G. 

 goisagi , from Japan and the Pelew Islands , while no other 

 locality is mentioned as habitat of either of both species. 



Holdsworth (P. Z. S. 1872 , p. 478) records Goisachius 

 melanolophus from Aripo , West Coast of Ceylon , as a win- 

 ter-visitant , shot in November. 



Hume, in different parts of »Stray Feathers" (1874, 

 1878 Vol. VI, 1879, 1880), considers G. melanolophus and 

 G. goisagi to be identical , but all his continental , Ceylo- 

 nese and Nicobar specimens , mentioned under the name 

 Goisakius melanolophus', of course belong to the first spe- 

 cies. The same is the case with those mentioned in other 

 publications in the » Stray Feathers" by Bourdillon (1878 

 VII) and Butler (1880). 



Salvador! (Ucc. di Borneo, 1874, p. 355) again separates 

 the young G. melanolophus under the name Botaurus 

 limnophilax, while on the other hand he unites the adult 

 black-crested bird with the Japanese form , giving this 

 united form the name Gorsachius melanolophus. The same 

 way is followed by Reichenow (J. f. 0. 1877^ pp. 246, 247). 



Finsch (Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 1875, Heft VIII. p. 35) 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseurn , "Vol. IX. 



