THE IBIS. 



SIXTH SERIES. 



No. XL JULY 1891. 



XXIX. — Ornithological Results of an Expedition to the Philip- 

 pine Islands in 1887 and 1888. By J. B. Steere^ Ph.D. 



[Plates VIL, VIIL] 



The Steere Expedition to tlie Philippines went out from the 

 University of Michigan in the year 1887, and spent about 

 twelve months in the islands. 



The object of the expedition was to make general zoological 

 collections, and at the same time to examine as many distinct 

 localities as possible, so that the distribution o£ species in 

 the various islands might be studied. Fifteen of the larger 

 inlands, situated in all parts of the group, were visited, and 

 from two to six weeks spent upon each. This amount of 

 time, with a party of five collectors from the United States, 

 and such native help as could be obtained, sufficed to make 

 very large, though by no means exhaustive, collections of 

 vertebrates, and important collections in several groups of 

 invertebrates. 



As far as possible, examples of all the species of birds in 

 each island were collected, and of all ages and both sexes. 

 Large collections of nests and eggs were also made. A few 

 species, such as Megapodius dillwyni, Munia atricapilla, 



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