1875.] THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 405 



Anas coromandeliana, Gm. S.N. i. p. 522, no. 90 (1788), ex Buffon; v. Pelzeln, lleise 

 'Novara,' VSgel, p. 136. 



Hob. Luzon (Laguna de Bai), June 20th (Zelebor). 



PROCELLARIID^. 



Pkocellariin^, 

 PuFFiNUS, Brisson. 



205. PUFFINUS LEUCOMELAS. 



Procellaria leucomelas, Temm. PI. Col. 587, "Japan" (183G); Temm. & Schlegel, Faun. 

 Japon. Aves, p. 131, pi. 85; G. R Gray, List Br. Mus. Anseres, p. 160, "Cataguan" (1844). 



Ilab. Cataguan {Cuming). 



LARID.E. 



Laein.<e. 



Larus, Linnseus. 



206. Laeus, sp. 



"Larus rklihundas, Linn.," v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 30, no. 184. 



Dr. V. Martens (/. c.) mentions having observed the Laughing Gull, during the month of 

 May, common on the Passig river ; and one or more examples, obtained at Manilla by Jao-or, 

 are stated to be preserved in the Berlin Museum. The species occurs rarely as a winter visitant 

 in South China (Swinhoe, P. Z. S, 1871, p. 421); and the above identification requires confirmation. 



A species of LestHs {L. hardiji, Bp. Compt. Eend. xlii. p. 770, 1856) has the Philippines 

 among other localities assigned to it in the Hand-list, no. 10939. Its right to rank as a distinct 

 species is denied by Professor Schlegel {cf. Bp. op. cit. xliii. p. 644) ; and its sole claim to be 

 included within the Philippine range rests on the fact of an example, contained in the Berlin 

 Museum, having been captured in mid ocean between the Sandwich and Philippine Islands. 

 In the Leyden Museum, at the time Bonaparte wrote, it was labelled Lestris parasiticus ? ex Tr. Z. S. 

 Malasia, Boie ; and in the Berlin Museum (example above referred to) Lestris crepidata, Cabanis. ^'" "^"^ 



Steeninje. 



Hydrociielidon, Boie. 



207. Htdrochelidon leucopaeeia. 



Sterna leiicopareia, Natterer, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. ii. p. 746 (1820) ; Walden, Tr. 

 Zool. Soc. viii. p. 103 *. 



Hah. Luzon, February. Bill grey-black ; feet coral-red ; nails black {Meyer). 

 The example thus labelled has the bill and feet dark carmine in the dried skin. 



* [Antea, p. 202.— Ed.] 



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