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  i'i!()CEEi>rxas 
  of 
  rnic 
  xatioxal 
  museum. 
  

  

  in 
  Catanduaiies 
  and 
  Faga. 
  Doctor 
  Bourns 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  collected 
  in 
  

   Tawi 
  Tawi, 
  the 
  Calianiianes 
  Islands 
  (Culion 
  and 
  I>nsnanga), 
  Masbate, 
  

   Tablas, 
  lioniblon, 
  and 
  Sibuyan, 
  and, 
  apart 
  from 
  the 
  extension 
  of 
  our 
  

   knowledge 
  to 
  these 
  previously 
  nearly 
  or 
  (]uite 
  unknown 
  areas, 
  much 
  

   has 
  been 
  learned 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  distribution 
  of 
  species 
  over 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  

   better-known 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  group. 
  

  

  It 
  seems 
  to 
  me, 
  therefore, 
  that 
  the 
  time 
  has 
  come 
  for 
  a 
  reexamination 
  

   of 
  the 
  ])roblems 
  in 
  question. 
  Even 
  were 
  the 
  data 
  at 
  my 
  disposal 
  no 
  

   more 
  com])lete 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  which 
  Steere 
  chose 
  to 
  avail 
  himself, 
  I 
  

   should 
  still 
  be 
  dis])ose(l 
  to 
  dissent 
  from 
  some 
  of 
  his 
  conclusions. 
  

  

  WHAT 
  ARE 
  THE 
  PHILIPPINESf 
  

  

  Steere 
  makes 
  the 
  Philii)pines 
  politicid 
  and 
  the 
  Philippines 
  zoolof/ical 
  

   identical 
  areas. 
  With 
  this 
  view 
  of 
  the 
  case 
  1 
  am 
  unable 
  to 
  agree. 
  

   Everett 
  has 
  long 
  since' 
  discussed 
  Steere's 
  "subprovince,'* 
  the 
  Western 
  

   Philippines, 
  and 
  has 
  shown 
  by 
  evidence 
  that 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  incontro- 
  

   vertible 
  that 
  Balabac 
  and 
  Palawan 
  belong 
  not 
  to 
  the 
  Philip])ine, 
  but 
  to 
  

   the 
  liornean 
  grouj) 
  of 
  islands. 
  

  

  Since 
  the 
  appearance 
  of 
  Everett's 
  paper 
  Bourns 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  collected 
  

   for 
  some 
  weeks 
  on 
  the 
  islands 
  of 
  Culion 
  and 
  Busuanga, 
  the 
  birds 
  aiul 
  

   mammals 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  practically 
  unknown 
  before 
  our 
  visit; 
  for 
  

   although 
  the 
  French 
  naturalist 
  M, 
  Alfred 
  Marche 
  spent 
  some 
  time 
  

   here 
  during 
  his 
  long 
  sojourn 
  in 
  the 
  archii)elago, 
  his 
  collections 
  seem 
  

   to 
  have 
  been 
  scattered 
  without 
  being 
  systematically 
  worked 
  uj), 
  and 
  

   his 
  results 
  lost 
  to 
  the 
  world. 
  Save 
  for 
  a 
  few 
  scattering 
  references 
  in 
  

   his 
  "Lu(j'on 
  et 
  I'alouan,''' 
  1 
  have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  find 
  no 
  record 
  whatever 
  

   of 
  his 
  discoveries 
  in 
  the 
  Calamianes 
  Islands. 
  

  

  Although 
  our 
  own 
  work 
  there 
  must 
  not 
  be 
  considered 
  in 
  any 
  sense 
  

   exhaustive, 
  it 
  was 
  still 
  sufficient 
  to 
  leave 
  no 
  room 
  for 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  

   zoological 
  artinities 
  of 
  this 
  hitherto 
  practically 
  unknown 
  grou]). 
  I 
  shall 
  

   attempt 
  to 
  show, 
  first, 
  that 
  the 
  Calamianes 
  Islands 
  belong 
  zoologically 
  

   with 
  Palawan: 
  second, 
  that 
  they 
  form 
  with 
  Palawan 
  and 
  Balabac 
  an 
  

   extension 
  of 
  the 
  liornean 
  group 
  of 
  islands, 
  and 
  therefore 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  

   included 
  with 
  the 
  Philii)i)ines 
  proper. 
  

  

  (TLION 
  AND 
  BUSUANGA. 
  

  

  Culion 
  and 
  Busuanga 
  are 
  by 
  far 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  islanrls 
  of 
  the 
  

   Calamianes 
  group. 
  They 
  lie 
  so 
  near 
  each 
  other 
  and 
  are 
  so 
  connected 
  

   by 
  small 
  islets 
  that 
  they 
  form 
  a 
  practically 
  continuous 
  area, 
  and 
  such 
  

   differences 
  as 
  exist 
  between 
  their 
  l)irds 
  are 
  ])urely 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  their 
  

   somewhat 
  different 
  ])hysical 
  characteristics. 
  

  

  Culion 
  has 
  little 
  forest. 
  It 
  is 
  moderately 
  hilly, 
  but 
  has 
  no 
  mountains 
  

   of 
  any 
  considerable 
  height. 
  Its 
  hills 
  are 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part 
  covered 
  with 
  

   imi)enetrable 
  bamboo 
  thickets. 
  In 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  the 
  island 
  is 
  a 
  marshy 
  

   plain 
  of 
  large 
  extent. 
  Bu.suanga, 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  has 
  a 
  good 
  deal 
  

  

  " 
  I'roc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  April 
  16, 
  1889, 
  pp. 
  220 
  228. 
  

  

  