On the Birds of the Philippine Islands. 501 



also to occur in the Autarctic seas. Dr. Donald writes 

 {op. cit.) : — 



"The Pygoscelis tceniata (Peale) was seen in the water 

 on several occasions, and was easily recognized by its white 

 crown and loud ' quangk/ much harsher and more pene- 

 trating than that of any of the other forms met Avitli. On 

 January 6th I landed on a small rookery belonging to this 

 species, situated at the western extremity of Dundee Island, 

 so called by our captain. It was placed about a stone's 

 throw from high -water, on the top of a horseshoe-shaped 

 hillock, and consisted of some forty nests. No paths were 

 seen to approach it from the sea, nor could a path well have 

 been beaten down in the hard stony clay which formed the 

 hillock. Each nest was composed of small stones or clayey 

 earth heaped together into the shape of a small conical 

 mound, with a depression some 3 inches deep in the centre. 

 This latter was lined with feathers and down from the 

 parents, most of which sho\yed upon the lower part of their 

 breasts a strip of bare red skin, from which the feathers had 

 been pulled. Rather more than half the eggs were already 

 hatched; and in many of the nests one of the two eggs was 

 already hatched, while it was still possible to blow the other. 

 I did not notice any difference in the size of the two eggs, 

 such as is described by Dr. Sharpe in his paper on Kerguelen 

 Land (Phil. Trans, clxviii.). Two eggs brought home are of 

 a chalky-white colour, with a faint tinge of blue, and measure 

 2' 7 inches by 2*2 inches, being thus distinctly larger than 

 those of Pi/goscelis adeli(e." 



XLVI. — On the Birds of the Philippine Islands. — Part 11."^ 

 The Highlands of North Luzon, 5000 feet. By W. R. 

 Ogilvie Gkant. JFith Field-Notes by John Whitkhead. 



(Plates XIY. & XV.) 

 Mr. Whitehead's second collection from the Philippines 

 arrived a few weeks ago (on the 15tb of June), and is rich in 



* For Part I. see above, p. 406. 



