I. BIRDS FROM THE ISLANDS OF ROMBLON, SIBUYAN, 
AND CRESTA DE GALLO. ' 
By RicwHarp C. McGrecor. 
PREFATORY NOTE. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
Manila, November 18, 1904. 
In order to facilitate administration, Mr. Richard C. McGregor, 
collector of natural-history specimens, and his two Filipino assist- 
ants have been transferred from the Hthnological Survey to the 
Bureau of Government Laboratories. The results of the work of 
Mr. McGregor and his assistants have heretofore been published by 
the Ethnological Survey under the title “Bulletins of the Phil- 
ippine Museum.” ‘They will hereafter be issued as publications 
of the Bureau of Government Laboratories. 
DEAan C. WORCESTER, 
Secretary of the Interior. 
On May 25, 1904, the writer with two Filipino assistants left 
Manila for the purpose of collecting on the more important islands 
of the Romblon group. Romblon Island was first visited. The 
ten days spent there enabled us to secure specimens of its peculiar 
birds and to add several interesting species to Worcester’s list. 
From Romblon we moved to the town of San Fernando in the 
Island of Sibuyan, where we remained, with the exception of a one- 
*The first four bulletins in the ornithological series were published by 
the Ethnological Survey under the title “Bulletins of the Philippine 
Museum.” Future ornithological publications of the Government will 
appear as publications of the Bureau of Government Laboratories. 
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