On the Birds of the PhUippine Islands. 209 



29. Tringa alpina, Linu. 



Pelidna alpina, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xxiv. p. 602 

 (1896). 



A Dunlin was obtained at Ras Sophia, Red Sea, on the 

 28th of December, 1895. 



30. Demiegretta gularis (Bosc). 



This little white Egret was common everywhere; a pair 

 were shot at Berenice. 



31. SuLA FIBER, Linn.; Heuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afr. iv. 

 p. 1483, & Appendix. 



An immature Booby, caught on the dhow, has the white 

 breast and belly of the adult indistinctly showing through 

 the sooty-brown plumage of youth. 



XVIII.— 0/z the Birds of the Philippine Islands.— Vs^vt IX.* 

 The Islands of Samar and Leite. By W. R. Ogilvie 

 Grant. JVith Field-Notes by John Whitehead. 



(Plates V. & VI.) 



About the middle of May, 1896, Mr. Johu Whitehead once 

 more left Manila for the island of Samar, to make another 

 collection in place of the one which had been lost off Singa- 

 pore. There is no really high ground in Samar, and now'here 

 do the hills attain a greater altitude than about 1500 feet 

 above sea-level. The greater part of the island is covered 

 with a dense and lofty forest, many of the trees being over 

 240 feet high. Under these circumstances collecting was 

 often a matter of difficulty, for birds, especially large ones, 

 some 80 yards overhead are hardly to be brought down with 

 a charge of shot from any ordinary gun. The climate 

 is hot and damp, and, as might be expected, the rainfall 

 unusually heavy, while the mud, for which the island is 



* For Part I. see Ibis, 1894, pp. 40G-411 ; Part II., ibid. pp. 501-522 ; 

 Part III. Ibis, 1895, pp. 106-117 ; Part IV. ibid. pp. 249-267; Pan V. 

 ibid. pp. 4.33-472 ; Part VI. Ibis, 1896, pp. 101-128 ; I'art VII. ibid. 

 pp. 457-477 ; Part VIII. ibid. pp. 525-565. 



