ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF PHILIPPINE IHKDS, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE SPECIES. 



By Edgar Alexander Mearns, 



Associate in ZooJogy, U. S. 'National Museum. 



This is the seventh of a series of papers on Philippine birds, pub- 

 lished by the Avriter, adding, in all, 50 species to the list of those pre- 

 viously knoAvn from the islands.*^ It is the writer's intention soon to 

 publish a list of Dr. Paul Bartsch's Philippine collection of birds, in 

 which two additional forms will be described. 



The following are additions to the species recorded from the Phil- 

 ippine Islands : 



STERNA LONGIPENNIS Nordmann. 

 NORD MANN'S TERN. 



I collected five specimens (Nos. 14065-00, author's collection) of 

 this species, in Basilan Strait, off Zamboanga^ IMindanao, Ai)ril II), 

 1906. Four were preserved as skins (Cat. Nos. 200770-73, U.S.N.M.) 

 -md one in alcohol. 



LOBIPES LOBATUS (Linnaeus). 

 NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 



On several occasions I had seen flocks of phalaropes on the seas 

 surrounding the Philippine Islands; and on April 19, 1900, three 

 specimens were collected in Basilan Strait, which connects the Sulu 

 and Celebes seas. These are Cat. Nos. 200774-6, U.S.N.M. 



TANYGNATHUS MEGALORHYNCHOS (Boddaert). 

 GREAT-BILLED PARROT. 



On January 23 and October 8, 1906, this large green parrot was 

 found in considerable numbers on Sarangani and Balut Islands of 

 the Sarangani group, off southern Mindanao. An adult female 

 (Cat. No. 200811, U.S.N.M.) was collected on Balut Island, January 

 23, 1906. 



The following are believed to be new to science : 



"See rioc. Riol. Soc. Washington, XVIII, January 20, 1905, pp. 1-8: Feb- 

 ruary 21, 1905, p. 73; February 21, 1905, pp. 83-90; June 29, 1905, p. 185; 

 Philippine Journ. Sci., II, October, 1907, p. 353; pp. 355-300. 



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