936 MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON THE [Nov. 19, 



4. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines. — 

 No. XI. On the Collection made by Mr. A. H. Everett 

 at Zamboanga, in the island of Mindanao. By 

 Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S., President of 

 the Society. 



[Eeceived October 26, 1878.] 

 (Plates LVII.-LIX.) 



The Spanish settlement of Zamboanga, situated at the southern 

 extremity of the long south-western limb of the large Philippine 

 island of Mindanao, is classical ground to the ornithologist. More 

 than a century ago Sonnerat collected birds there ; and in the year 

 1839 D'Urville's second Expedition remained a couple of months at 

 Zamboanga. Yet only 19 species in all were recorded from Minda- 

 nao when in 1875 I published my List of Philippine Birds. Since 

 that date Dr. Steere and the naturalists of the ' Challenger ' Expe- 

 dition have collected in the vicinity of Zamboanga, and added 40 

 species, thereby increasing the total of known species to 59. 



Mr. Everett arrived at Zamboanga last March, and remained 

 through April and part of May. During his stay he obtained 

 examples of 98 species of birds. Mr. Everett writes that these were 

 all procured " within a radius of ten miles of Zamboanga, chiefly in 

 the hilly country some five miles distant at the back of the town." 

 Of these 98 species only 33 had been previously known to inhabit 

 this part of Mindanao ; so that 65 species have been added by 

 Mr. Everett, of which 1 1 are new to the Philippines, the following 

 6 being also new to science — 



Pseudoptynx gurneyi, Chcetura picina, 



Ninox spilocephalus, Lyncornis mindanensis, 



Scops everetti, Volvocivora mindanensis, — 



the remaining 5 having been previously unknown in the Phi- 

 lippines — 



Accipiter stevensoni, Cacomantis sepulchralis, 



Ninox luyubris, Ptilopus melanocephalus. 



Coccystes coromandus, 



Examples of 6 species previously said to have a Philippine habitat 

 Mr. Everett found at Zamboanga, thus reducing the number of un- 

 certain Philippine species to 29. 



Twenty species authentically recorded from Zamboanga and its 

 vicinity are not contained in Mr. Everett's collection : so that the 

 now known total of Zamboanga species identified from specimens 

 amounts to 118. 



Mr. Everett writes : — " I enclose a note of the species observed by 

 me here, which I think were not represented by skins in my col- 



