466 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds from 



Birds recently acquired by the British Museum. It was 

 made by Mr. Walter Goodfellow during the early months 

 of ]905 on the Volcano of Apo and in the neighbouring 

 coast-district of South-east Mindanao. 



The late Mr. John Whitehead's memorable visit to the 

 Philippine Archipelago in 1894-1897 added greatly to our 

 knowledge of the avifauna of the northern and central 

 islands, as is shown by his papers in ' The Ibis ' *, but he 

 was never able to explore the interior of Mindanao, for when 

 he returned to Manila in February 1899, with that object in 

 view, the Americans had but recently taken over the govern- 

 ment of the Philippines from the Spaniards, and it was 

 considered unsafe to travel in the interior of the lawless 

 southern island. Subsequently, as will be remembered, 

 Whitehead visited the island of Hainan and obtained many 

 fine new birds in the Five-Finger Mountains before he 

 was struck down by a malignant fever and died in May 

 1899 (cf. P. Z. S. 1900, pp. 457-504). 



It was considered certain by those who had studied the 

 ornithology of the Philippines that Mindanao with its high 

 mountain-ranges must contain many prizes for the traveller 

 who could manage to penetrate to the interior and collect 

 there. Personally I fully expected that the island would 

 yield novelties as fine as those discovered by Whitehead in 

 the highlands of Luzon, but, so far, this does not appear to 

 have been the case ; for though many new species have been 

 already discovered, the avifauna of Mindanao is not nearly 

 so remarkable and varied as that of Luzon. Such birds as 

 Callaeops periophthalmica, Pyrrhula leucogenis, Loocia luzo- 

 niensiSj Chlorura brunneiventris, Chimarrhomis bicolor, and 

 Tribura seebohmi, so far as we are at present aware, are not 

 represented ; while Pitta kochi, Ptilopus marchei, and Prio- 

 niturus montanus are infinitely finer forms than any which 



* For Part I. see Ibis, 1894, pp. 406-411 ; Part II. t. c. pp. 501-522 ; 

 Part III. Ibis, 1895, pp. 106-117; Part IV. t. c. pp. 249-267 ; Part V. 

 t. c. pp. 433-472; Part VI. Ibis, 1896, pp. 101-128; Part VII. t. c. 

 pp. 457-477; Part VIII. t. c. pp. 525-565; Part IX. Ibis, 1897, pp. 209- 

 250. 



