﻿314 m'gebgor. 



Pratincola caprata (Linn.). 



Apparently rave: one female taken September 3, 1900. 



Orthotomus castaneiceps Walden. 



Extremely abundant; a fully grown bird of the year taken September 11. 1900, 

 is dull green above and white below; the breast slightly gray; chestnut of adult 

 plumage just showing around eye and a few gray plumes in neck. Adults 

 do not differ from specimens collected in Masbate and Ticao. The native name 

 is "tag-ua-ti'." 



Cisticola exilis (Vig. & Horsf.). 



This small grass warbler is probably the most abundant avian species on the 

 island. A bird just from the nest was taken August 21, 1900. 



Acanthopneuste borealis (Bias.). 



The Northern willow warbler was very rare; a female was taken September 8, 

 1900. and another individual was seen a few days before. 



Artamus leucorhynchus (Linn.). 

 Abundant. 



Otomela lucionensis (Linn.). 



The common shrike of the Philippines is known in Bantayan as "te-ti'-bi-as." 



Cinnyris jugularis (Linn.). 



Specimens of this species from Bantayan are slightly orange below the black 

 breast. Abundant in coconut groves but no other species of Xectariiiiidw was 

 detected. 



Anthus rufulus Yieill. 



Fairly abundant; a male and a female were preserved. 



Munia jagori Martens. 

 Not common. 



Oriolus chinensis Linn. 



Abundant. The native name is "tu-li-hao'." 



Dicrurus mirabilis Wald. and Layard. 



The ovary of a female taken August 28, 1906, contained a large egg and a 

 young bird just able to fly was captured September 3, 1900. The adults taken 

 do not differ from Ticao and Cebu specimens. 



Sarcops melanonotus Grant. 2 



Not common; the single specimen preserved belongs to the above recently 

 described variety. 



Lamprocorax panayensis (Scop.). 



.Just before sunset on September 8, 1906, while looking for goatsuckers in an 

 old cornfield, numbers of Panay starlings were noted flying in straight converging 

 lines. The birds were in pairs or in flocks of from 3 to 30 individuals while near 

 the close of the flight two flocks were estimated to contain 130 and 150 birds 

 respectively. The average flock contained some 15 birds. Later investigation 

 disclosed what I had expected to find, a night roost of these birds in a clump of 

 bamboos and mangrove trees situated on the margin of a salt water swamp. 

 In all 08 flocks were counted or estimated with a total of 1,059 birds, which was 

 not over a third of the number actually reaching the roost. 



Corone philippina (Bonap.). 

 Abundant. 



2 Bull. R. O. ('. (1906), 16, 100. 



