586 ON THE OENITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1878. 



orbital skin greenish yellow ; gular skin yellow ; legs and feet dark orange, b, S. Leyte, ? , 

 October. Iris grey-brown ; bill jet-black, tip orange ; feet dull orange." 



The bill remains black after the bird has assumed the completely mature plumage and after 

 the casque is almost perfectly formed. 



Dimensions. Casque. 



< ^ ^ , , ^ — ^ 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. BUI from Length. Breadth. Sides. 



gape. 

 in. in. in. in. in. in. in. 



6 15-80 15-00 2-20 5-85 4-90 2-00 3-35 



$ 14-30 14-50 2-20 5-30 4-75 1-65 3-30 



cjjuv 14-50 14-00 2-20 5-20 4-80 1-40 0-00 



For this HornbiU. I propose the title of Buceros semigaleatus. 



P.Z.S.1878, Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines. — No. V. On the Collection made hy Mr. A. H. 

 ^' ' Everett in the Island of ISfegros. By Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S., President of 



the Society. [From the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,' read February 

 19, 1878.] 



Mr. Everett has been continuing his zoological researches in the Philippine Islands unremittingly, 

 and, by the consignment of a collection of birds during the month of August last in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Nueva Valencia and Dumaguete, situated at the extreme south of Negros, has 

 enabled me to continue these contributions to the ornis of the archipelago. 



" The southern extremity of Negros," Mr. Everett writes, " which is the most mountainous 

 part of the island, and where I hoped to find accessible virgin forest, is simply one vast field of 

 maize, sugar-cane, and hemp, perfectly cleared, even far up the steep sides of the mountains, and 

 is a very poor district indeed for birds." Notwithstanding, Mr. Everett in the space of one month 

 secured 56 distinct species, 24 of which are now recorded for the first time from Negros. Of 

 these 24 there are 6 new to the Philippine area, 3 of which are new to science. 



Species not hitherto known as being inhabitants of the Philippines ; — 



Collocalia francica. Basycrotapha speciosa. 



JButalis latirostris. Zosterops nigrorum. 



Limosa (egocephala. Macropygia eurycerca. 



The last three are new species. 

 P.Z.S.1878, The exact habitat of one previously recorded Philippine bird has been determined by 



P- ^^^- Mr. Everett, 



Eudromias geoffroyi ; 



and there now remain 38 Philippine birds of which the precise habitat still continues undecided. 



