606 ON THE OENITHOLOGT OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1878. 



Acrocephalns insularis, Wallace, Ibis, 1862, p. 350. 

 Calamoherpe fumigata, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, pp. 91, 293. 

 Calamoherpe subflavescens, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 243. 



A single example from Manilla in the yellow under-plumage of A. fasciolatiis, with which 

 species I identify A. insularis. New to the Philippines. 



Anthus gustavi. 



Corydalla gustavi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 366 ; Briiggemann, Abhandl. naturw. Ver. zu 

 Bremen, v. p. 67 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 338. 



Dr. Briiggemann, who first made known the occurrence of this bird in the Philippines {I. c), 

 correctly identified the same example Professor Koch has sent to me. It was obtained by 

 Herr v. Othberg near Manilla. Some months later, Mr. Sharpe (l. c.) made known that Dr. Steere 

 had discovered the same species in the island of Basilan. 



Anthus maculatus. 



Anthus maculatus, Hodgs., Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 83 ; Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 696*. 

 Two examples from Manilla are sent by Professor Koch. Mr. Everett also procured it at 

 Monte Alban (cf. Tweeddale, I. c). 



P.Z.S.1S78, Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philipjnnes. — No. IX. On the Collection made hy Mr. A. 

 p. 611. j/_ Everett in the Island of Palawanf. By Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S., Pre- 



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

 May 21, 1878$, Plates XXXVII. & XXXVIII. in orig.] 



Until visited by Dr. Steere in July 1874, when he remained for a month at the Spanish settle- 

 ment of Puerto Princesa, the island of Palawan, so far as is on record, had not been explored by 

 any naturalist. Nothing was known of its zoological productions ; and its exact relationship as 

 a zoogeographical area remained an unsolved problem. During his stay at Puerto Princesa 

 Dr. Steere collected examples of 32 species of birds, all of which have been enumerated by 

 Mr. Sharpe §. 



At the end of November 1877 Mr. A. H. Everett arrived at Puerto Princesa, and remained until 

 the beginning of January, when, becoming disabled by fever, he was obliged to return to Manilla 

 to recruit his health. He, however, succeeded in collecting specimens of 52 species of birds, 32 

 of which are additional to those obtained by Dr. Steere. This last gentleman discovered 12 



* [AnUa, p. 522.— Ed.] 



t I treat Palawan as being a Philippine Island in a political sense. It remains to be shown whether it docs not in 

 fact belong, zoologically, rather to Borneo. 



i [Published October 1, 1878.— Ed.] § Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zoology, vol. i. 



