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says, " what the bird from the Pelew Islands is, cannot be determined without a specimen," and 

 when we find this bird altogether omitted from his list of species composing the genus, it seems 

 desirable to note that it has been described by Dr. Finsch (Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, Hft. xiii. p. 41) 

 as a distinct species, under the title of A. pelewensis, and that, quite lately, Dr. Finsch (P. Z. S. 

 1877, p. 739) has referred his readers to that account for the differences that distinguish it from 

 A. melaleucus. It may be added to Mr. Sharpe's notes {t. c.) that the Celebesian form of A. leu- 

 corhynchus has been entitled A. celehensis by the late Dr. Briiggemann. A species from the 

 " Inseln des stillen Oceans " has been described by the same author as new, under the title of 

 A. brevij)cs, which, on Dr. Briiggemann's authority, I may state, is nothing but A. fuscus. It 

 may be added that the same author, in the belief that A. insignis was the true A. monachus, has 

 given the latter species the title of A. spectaUlis (Ann. N. H. ser. 5, i. p. 349). 



Yours obediently. 

 Tester, 24th May, 1878. TWEEDDALE. 



Contrihdions to the Ornithology of the Philijfjnnes. — No. XI. On the Collection made by Mr. A. P.Z.S.1878, 

 ff. Everett at Zamhoaiiga, in the Island of Mindanao. By Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, ^' 

 F.R.S., President of the Society. [From the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London,' read November 19, 1878*, Plates LVII.-LIX. in orig.] 



The Spanish settlement of Zamboanga, situated at the southern extremity of the lonf south- 

 western limb of the large Philippine island of Mindanao, is classical ground to the ornithologist. 

 More than a century ago Sonnerat collected birds there ; and in the year 1839 D'Urville's second 

 Expedition remained a couple of months at Zamboanga. Yet only 19 species in all were recorded 

 from Mindanao when in 1875 I published my List of Philippine Birds. Since that date 

 Dr. Steere and the naturalists of the ' Challenger ' Expedition have collected in the vicinity of 

 Zamboanga, and added 40 species, thereby increasing the total of known species to 59. 



Mr. Everett arrived at Zamboanga last March, and remained through April and part of May. 

 During his stay he obtained examples of 98 species of birds. Mr. Everett writes that these were 

 all procured " within a radius of ten miles of Zamboanga, chiefly in the hilly country some five 

 miles distant at the back of the town." Of these 98 species only 33 had been previously known 

 to inhabit this part of Mindanao ; so that 65 species have been added by Mr. Everett, of which 

 11 are new to the Philippines, the following 6 being also new to science — 



Pseudojptynx gurneyi, Chcetura jaicina, 



Ninox sinloccplialiis, Lyncornis mindanensis, 



Scops everetti, Volvocivora mindanensis, — 



the remaining 5 having been previously unknown in the Philippines — 



Accipiter stevensoni, Cacomantis sepulchralis, 



Ninox luguhris, Ftilopus melanocephalus. 



Coccystes coromandus, 



* [Published AprU 1, 1879.— Ed.] 



