512 ON THE OEXITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877. 



N. H. ser. 4, xv. p. 400 *, 1875, & B. Burma, no. 494), receives the additional title of ^. waUeni ; 

 and a bird well known to ornithologists, certainly to all those who consult the ordinary sources 

 of reference before proceeding to give a new title, Tiirdus sihiricus, Pallas (1776), finds a place 

 among the "if really new" novelties, and in its old age receives the title of Turdulus davisoni, 

 Hume. Mr. Davison lately obtained it in Tenasserim, whence I also have received it from 

 Mr. Limborg, labelled "davisoni, Hume." In March 1874, Mr. Wardlaw Eamsay found it in 

 Karen-nee, as already mentioned by me (Blyth, B. Burma, no. 252) and by Mr. Dresser (in his 

 ' Birds of Europe '). In the last-named work it is AveU figured, as it had already been in Gould's 

 * Birds of Europe,' and again in his ' Birds of Great Britain,' as likewise by Schlegel in the 

 ' Fauna Japonica.' 



Yours, &c., 

 Chislehurst, July 17, 1S77. TWEEDDALE. 



P.Z.S.1877, Contrihutions to the Ornithology of the Philijijiines. — No. I. On the Collection made hij 

 ^' ' Mr. A. H. Everett in the Island of Luzon. By Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S., 



President of the Society. [From the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,' 

 read November 6, 1877 f, Plates LXXII. & LXXIII. in. orifj.] 



Mr. Everett, so favourably known as an able, energetic and zealous field-naturalist, and as one 

 of the foremost explorers of the fauna of Borneo, arrived in the Island of Luzon in the beginning 

 of this year, and, after overcoming the official difficulties which sometimes obstruct scientific 

 investigations in the Philippine Islands, commenced collecting zoological specimens at Monte 

 Alban and San Mateo, stations not far from Manilla. Among other objects Mr. Everett secured 

 some 361 specimens of birds in part of the month of January, in February, and in the beginning 

 of March, 1877. These he has kindly consigned to me ; and I propose to give an account of 

 them, adding in each instance the original notes on the labels made by Mr. Everett. Eighty- 

 five species are represented in the collection ; and although the neighbourhood of Manilla might 

 with justice be considered as having been exhausted by former collectors, Mr. Everett has 

 discovered three undescribed species, besides adding many more to the already known Luzon, 

 and a few to the Philippine avifauna. 

 P.Z.S.1877, In my memoir on the Birds inhabiting the Philippine Archipelago J I enumerated 218 



^' '■ species. This number must be diminished by one, Circus ceruginosiis, Mr. H. Cuming's 

 Philippine specimen, catalogued under that title by Mr. Sharpe (Cat. Accipitres B. Mus. p. 71), 

 my only authority, being now considered by Mr. Sharpe to be C. s])ilonotus, jr. (see Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 31). Further I have reason to doubt the Philippine habitat of so-called Craterojms caudatiis 

 (no. 97). To the net total of 216 species Mr. Sharpe has been able to add some 66 species, for 



* {Antea, p. 414.— Ed.] t [PubHshed April 1, 1878.— Ed.] 



t Trans. Zool. Soc. 1875, ix. pp. 125-252 [antea, pp. 293-413]. 



