I. BIRDS FROM MINDORO AND SMALL ADJACENT 

 ISLANDS. 



By RICHARD C. MCGREGOR. 



MINDORO. 



In the present paper there will be found recorded the birds seen 

 or collected along the Baco Eiver in the northern part of Mindoro 

 during an expedition to that island covering March, April, and 

 May, 1905. Our first station was but a short distance from the 

 coast, at a locality known as Chicago. This point was selected 

 in order to take advantage of a house which the owner, Mr. 

 E. C. Hamill, of the North American Trading Company, kindly 

 placed at our disposal. Here we secured the two specimens of 

 Chcetura, which I refer to a new species, and a specimen of the 

 beautiful little cuckoo Clialcococcyx xanthorhynchus. At Chicago 

 collecting was not satisfactory, and therefore I very soon made 

 preparations to move well up the river. Natives were dispatched 

 in advance to build a house (PL I) in the virgin forest as near 

 as possible to the base of Mount Halcon (PL II). This, our 

 second station, I shall refer to as Balete, assuming it to have been 

 at least in the vicinity of the camp of that name occupied by Bourns 

 and Worcester in 1891. Balete is a much more satisfactory locality 

 than Chicago, as the forest is extensive, fairly free from under- 

 brush, and is traversed by numerous trails. 



No startling discoveries were made in this locality, but good series 

 of the species peculiar to Mindoro were obtained.and several species 

 were added to the known avifauna of this island; among the latter 

 was an Edoliisoma which appears to be undescribed. 



We found it impossible to make a station on the mountain, as 

 not enough of the wild hill people of Mindoro, known as the 

 Mangyanes, could be found to carry even a third of our outfit. 



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