the Volcano of Apo and its Vicinity. 17 1 



0. OlUOLUS CHINENSIS. 



Oriolus chinensis Linn. ; McGregor & Worcester, p. 106. 



n-f. <$ ? et ? imra. Davao, Feb. and March. Nos. 105, 

 109, 113, 1.21, 141, 310. 



$ . " Iris brown, eyelids pink ; bill pink, lighter at the 

 tip ; feet bluish-grey ; claws pinkish-grey." 



? . " Iris reddish-brown, eyelids purplish-red ; bill coral- 

 pink ; feet bluish-slate." 



? imm. " Iris deep reddish ; bill pinkish-black ; feet grey." 



Adult females of this Oriole from Luzon, Mariuduque, 

 and Catanduanes have the upper parts much yellower than 

 birds from the more southern Philippine Islands, only the 

 lower part of the back being slightly washed with olive. 

 In adult females from Samar, Ccbu, Negros, Guimaras, 

 Bohol, Mindanao, and Basilan the entire mantle and back 

 below the yellow nape are strongly washed with olive, in 

 marked contrast with the rump and upper tail-coverts. 

 Though these differences are possibly not of very great 

 importance, it seems worth while to draw attention to them. 

 The males from Luzon &c. are indistinguishable from those 

 found in Mindanao and other southern islands. 



In the ' Hand-list of the Birds of the Philippine Islands/ 

 by McGregor and Worcester, I find a footnote by the latter, 

 in which he states that I was mistaken in believing that 

 the type of O. steeri came from Negros, and that O. nigro- 

 striatus Bourns and Worcester was a synonym of that species. 

 If Mr. Worcester will examine the 'Catalogue of Birds 

 of the Brit. Mus.' iii. p. 213 (1877), he will find there 

 Dr. Sharpc's original description of O. steerii, and see that the 

 type, which came from Negros and not from Basilan, is now 

 in the British Museum. Dr. Sharpe, in his description of 

 O. steerii, subsequently published in the Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) 

 i. p. 329, quotes the ' Catalogue of Birds,' so that the former 

 was obviously published at a later date. The Basilan Oriole, 

 as already pointed out (cf. f Ibis,' 1896, pp. 532, 533), must 

 therefore stand as O. basilanicus Grant. 



7. Anthus maculatus. 



Anthus maculatus Ilodgs. ; McGregor & Worcester, p. 101. 



o, b. ? . Mt. Apo, 8000 ft., Feb. and March. Nos. 189, 256. 



