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day trip to Cresta de Gallo, until our departure for Manila on thé 
21st of July. 
Thus far our only knowledge of the birds of Romblon Province 
has been based upon the work of Prof. Dean C. Worcester, who, 
with his collector, Mateo Francisco, visited and collected on the 
three largest islands of the group, viz, Romblon, Tablas, and 
Sibuyan. The results, as published in Worcester and Bourns’ “Dis- 
tribution List,’ show 71 species for Tablas, 65 for Sibuyan, and 47 
for Romblon.t Altogether 88-species were recorded from the three 
islands visited, 7 of which were described as new, viz, lyngipicus 
menager, Chibia menagei, Diceum intermedium, Diceum sibuya- 
nicum, Lole cinereiceps, Rhipidura sauli, Hyloterpe major. 'The 
last species, Hyloterpe major, is omitted from the “Distribution 
List,” as it is considered to be the same as H. winchellt. To this list 
we have added 25 species found by us either in Romblon or Sibuyan 
or in both islands, and 3 more from Cresta de Gallo, making the 
total number of species known from the province 116. In addition 
to the interesting new species discovered by Worcester, 2 in our 
collection seem to be peculiar to Romblon Province and are here 
described as new. One of these, the Zoriculus, has long been under 
suspicion, and the other, a screech owl, is of a genus now first 
recorded from this province. 
The physical features of the islands require few remarks here, 
having been described by Worcester,? who also points out the 
peculiar character of their avian fauna. Romblon is a small, nearly 
circular island whose shores rise abruptly from the water and 
whose whole surface is broken, making travel difficult. A large 
part of the old forest, even to the highest points, has been cleared 
off to make way for cocoanut groves. The few small patches of 
woods remaining cling to steep hillsides and afford little or no 
1In the “Preliminary Notes” the authors give only 66 species for 
Tablas and 44 for Romblon. This difference is probably due to a more 
complete identification of their material when their “Distribution List” 
was prepared. 
*The Philippine Islands and Their People, 1901, pp. 465, 466; also 
Proc. U. S. N. M., XX, p. 584. I suspect that the tree in Sibuyan, supposed 
to be a conifer, is Casuarina equisetifolia, a peculiar species somewhat 
resembling, in the distance, a pine. It is quite abundant along the Rio 
Grande in Sibuyan, and a considerable number of trees of the same kind 
were found in Calayan, Babuyan group, specimens of which were identified 
for me by Miss Alice Eastwood, of the California Academy of Sciences. 
