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not from Siam, as erroneously stated by Hume." Mr, Hume 

 (Str. F. 1874, p. 471) distinctly states that Mr. Elliot's bird 

 was discovered by M. Germain in Cochin China_, and I 

 am not aware that Mr. Hume ever made mention of the 

 type of G. erxjthropycj'ms of Elliot having come from Siam. 



XIV. — On a Collection of Birds from the Island of Palawan. 

 By R. BowDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



(Plates III., IV.) 



My friend Mr. John Whitehead has sent a fine collection of 

 birds as the result of his expedition to Palawan. He was 

 unsuccessful in getting far into the interior of the island, and 

 was therefore obliged to collect in the neighbourhood of 

 Puerto Princesa, which had been the scene of the labours of 

 Professor Steere and of Mr. Everett. It is sufficient to state 

 that Mr. Whitehead has obtained examples of every species 

 but one met with in Palawan by the before-mentioned 

 naturalists, and Mr. Lempriere also ; while he has added to 

 the list 60 species previously unrecorded from Pahiwan, thus 

 nearly doubling the known avifauna of the island. Out of 

 129 species now enumerated from the island, no less than 

 35 are peculiar to Palawan, and of the rest 14 are found 

 in the Philippines, but not in Borneo; while 33 are known 

 from Borneo,but have not been recorded from the Philij)pines. 

 The presence in Mr. Whitehead's collection of a Cryptolopha, 

 almost, if not quite identical with C. mantis of Kina Balu, 

 indicates that there may be an unexpected affinity between 

 the mountain fauna of Palawan and North Borneo, and 

 it will be rash to generalize upon our present information 

 as to the zoo-geographical relations of the island. 



The following I believe to be a complete list of the birds 

 now known to inhabit Palawan. Those peculiar to the island 

 are marked with a dagger (f), and the letter " [B.] " or 

 " [P-] " indicates the Bornean or Philippine habitat of the 

 species, so as to give some idea of the relations of the avifauna 



