﻿THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



A. General Science 



Vol. II OCTOBER, 1907 No. 5 



OSTEOLOG1CAL AND OTHER NOTES ON SARCOPS 

 CALVUS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 



By K. W. Shufeldt. 

 [Xew York City.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



About two years ago. Mr. Richard C. McGregor, of the Bureau of 

 Science at Manila, roughed out two skeletons, both of adult females of 

 Sarcops calvus, and sent them to me for description. The birds were 

 taken in Mindoro in May, 1905. Shortly after receiving this material, 

 I carefully prepared it for description. Dr. Charles W. Richmond, of 

 the United States Xational Museum, courteously loaned me two skins 

 from the collection of the Museum. One of these (Xo. 147229) was 

 from Subic, Zambales, Luzon. The other (Xo. 190202) was taken at 

 Pantar, Mindanao. These two specimens showed some distinctions in 

 their markings, which if constant would seem to indicate that they were 

 of different species. The gray mantle on the dorsum of the one from 

 Luzon covered nearly the entire back, while in the one collected in Min- 

 danao it was restricted to the region of the back of the neck. Believing 

 that only one form of this bird was known to science, I communicated 

 with Dr. Richmond and in reply received the following statement dated 

 September 12, 1906 : - 



"In a recent number of the Bulletin of the British Ornitholrgists' Club, Grant 

 has described a second species of Sarcops, and I think the Mindanao bird belongs 

 to it, but I can not recollect what name he gave it." 



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