The Philippine Journal of Science, 



D. General Biology, Ethnologj' and Antliropology. 



Vol. VI, No. 1, February, 1011. 



NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM NORTHERN 

 NEGROS. 



By Richard C. McGregor, 



{From the Ornithological Section, Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I.) 



The earliest paper on the birds of Negros that I liave Feen is one b\' 

 Walden and Layard ^ on a collection made in the southern part of the 

 island by Mr. L. C. Layard. Of the seventeen species there recorded 

 three are described as new. In 1875 Walden published his monograph, 

 "A List of the Birds Known to Inhabit the Philippine Archipelago,"^ 

 including therein some species obtained in Negros by the German col- 

 lector Meyer, and giving the total number of species known from the 

 island as thirty-eight. Two years later, Mr. A. H. Everett began his 

 explorations in the Philippine Islands which resulted in the discovery 

 of the many new species of Philippine birds described and figured by 

 Tweeddale in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 

 1877-1879. Everett ^ collected at Valencia and Dumaguete in the 

 southern part of the island and secured specimens of fifty-six species; 

 twenty-four of these had not previously been recorded from Negros and 

 six of them had not been Imown from the Philippines. Dasycrotapha 

 speciosa, the most remarkable of the three new species discovered by 

 Everett, was described and figured in a separate paper.'' 



In 1874 Steere began his work in the Philippine Islands, visiting 

 Negros during the next year, where he obtained specimens of thirty-eight 

 species of birds, among them being the following new species which were 

 described by Sharpe.^ 



Oriohis steeri, Dicceum hamatostictum, ^thopyga magnifica, Anth- 

 rep'tes chlorigaster, and Pliapitreron nigrorum. 



As a result of the collections made by the Steere Expedition/ eighty- 

 one species were recorded from Negros. Two species, Cryptolopha 



^Ibis (1872), 93-107, pis. 4-6. 



-Trans. Zool. Soc. London (1875), 9, 125-252, 23-34. 



' Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1878), 280-288. 



' Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1878), 114, pi. 9. 



"Nature (1876), 14, 297, 298; Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2d. ser. Zool. (1877;, 

 307-355, pis. 46-54. 



°A list of the birds and mammals collected by the Steere Expedition to the 

 Philippines, Ann Arbor, 1890. 



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