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Halcyon lindsayi (Vigors). 



One of my hunters killed a male of this species at his home in Silang, 

 Cavite Province, Luzon, and brought it to Manila. 



Merops bicolor Bodd. 

 Several seen on Fuga. 



Caprimulgus jotaka Temm. and Schl. ; Bourns and Worcester, Minn. 

 Acad. Sci., Oc. Papers, vol. 1, p. 42 (Palawan). 

 One female from Calayan, where it is extremely rare and shy. In 

 Bulletin No. 1 I described the female plumage of Caprimulgus griseatus. 

 I have now received from Mr. William Eagle Clarke his fourth paper on 

 Negros birds and find that he had already described this plumage. 



Salangana 1 marginata (Salvad.). 

 Collocalia marginata McGregor, Bull. Phil. Mus., No. 1, p. 9; ibid, No. 3, p. 9. 



This little swift, previously believed to be extremely rare, was abun- 

 dant on Calayan during our entire stay. Daring the stormiest weather 

 it was feeding for many hours and often in company with the smaller 

 swallows. If the weather was calm large parties of swifts hawked high 

 about the trees or played among the tree tops, occasionally turning a 

 somersault with no apparent reason. At other times, when the wind was 

 strong off shore, they were found hunting low near the beach, thus 

 securing the protection of a thick fringe of trees which grew just above 

 high water. During such times it was an easy matter to get near them, 

 as they had little fear. I caught one with a butterfly net on a stormy 

 day. Two were brought me alive which were said to have entered houses. 

 Local name, "nido"; also called by some "sa-lum-pi-ping-au," but the 

 latter name refers more strictly to the various species of Hirundo. 



In September most of the birds had the first primary but partly grown 

 and this is true of a few up to the middle of November or later. Speci- 

 mens with flesh-colored feet, which I take to be young of the year, do 

 not differ from the adult in plumage, nor is this peculiar, for the nestling 

 of 8. linchi is almost exactly like the adult. In these two species a 

 single plume grows from the upper side of the hind toe, the tip of the 

 plume reaching about middle of claw. 



Measurements of Salangana marginata. 



1 Salangana, Geoffr. St.-Hilaire. Cf. Richmond, Proc. U. S. N. M., Vol. XXV, 

 p. 301. 



