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Perhaps it will be of some interest to you if I take this 

 opportunity of giving a list which shows the results of the 

 collections made by Whitehead and Platen, and of the 

 essays on them of Sharpe and myself respectively. Sharpe 

 introduces the following species as collected or observed by 

 Whiteheadj which have not been obtained either recently by 

 Platen, or formerly by other collectors : — 



1. Circus spilonotus (?) ; 2. Pandion haliaetus (these two 

 species were only observed, not obtained) ; 3. Baza leu- 

 copias, sp. n. ; 4. Halcijon coromanda; 5. Collocalia fuel- 

 phaga (I have in my list mentioned this species in Dr. Platen's 

 collection as " Cypselus loivi" wrongly as I now see, as the 

 last-named species is not yet proved to belong to Palawan) ; 

 G. Batrachostomus corniitus ; 7. Caprimulgiis macrunis ; 8. 

 Cuculus sonneratii ; 9. Pericrocotus cinereiis (Sharpe men- 

 tions, evidently erroneously, Lempriere also as an authority 

 for this species) ; 10. Cryptolopha montis ; 11. Pitta erythro- 

 gastra ; 12. Tole striaticeps, sp. n. ; 13. Cisticola cisticola ; 

 14. Munia atricapilla ; 15. Turtur tigrina ; 16. Esacus mag- 

 nirostris ; 17. Glareola orientalis ; 18. Numenius lineatus ; 

 19. Terekia cinerea -, 20. Gallinago australis (is this B,hynch<2a 

 australis ?) ; 21. Gallinago fasciata (is this name a printer's 

 error for Rallina fasciata ?) ; 22. Herodias intermedia ; 23. 

 Sterna sinensis -, 24. HydrocheUdon hybrida ; and 25. Fregata 

 minor. These 25 species will go to augment my list. 



On the other hand, from the Platen collection, I can sup- 

 plement Sharpens list with the following species : — 



1. Hypotriorchis severus (Horsf.) ; 2. Spizaetus philippensis 

 (Gurney) ; 3. Spilornis bacha (Daud.) (Sharpe could only tell 

 from a wing that a species different from S. pallidus and 

 S. holospilus occurs in Palawan) ; 4. Ninox scutulata (Raffl.) ; 

 5. Cuculus canoi'oides, S. Miill. ; 6. Hierococcyx strenuus, 

 Gould ; 7. Eudynaniis mindanensis (Linn.) ; 8. Pelargopsis 

 gouldi, Sharpe; 9. Caprimulgus manillensis, G. R. Gray; 10. 

 Siphia 7'atnsayi, W. Bias, (a species with which Sharpe's 

 description of Siphia lemprieri does not agree) ; 11. Hemiche- 

 liJon sibirica (Gm.) ; 12. Lalage dominica (P. L. S. Miill.) ; 

 13. Arturav.s kucoguster fValcnc.) ; 14. Parus amabilis, 



