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Limonites ruficollis (Pall.). 



Tringa albescens Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 712. 



Two small sandpipers were killed on May 25 from a large flock which was 

 feeding about a flooded salt works located a short distance east of Loay. These 

 specimens are in nearly perfect summer plumage and agree with the description of 

 the above species. 



Limicola platyrhyncha (Temm.). 



Limicola platyrhyncha Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 712. 

 Collected by Everett in northern Bohol; not seen by us. 



Gallinago gallinago (Linn.). 



Gallinago scolopacina Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 712. 

 Collected by Everett in northern Bohol ; not seen by vis. 



Dissoura episcopus (Bodd.). 



Melanopelargus episcopus Steere, List Phil. Bds. (1890), 27. (Bojol.) 

 Bohol is omitted from the list of localities given for this species in McGregor 



and Worcester's Hand-list, p. 31. I did not observe the species in Bohol, but many 



of the natives told me of it, and Celestino, who is familiar with the species, did 



see it. 



Pyrrherodias manillensis (Meyen).* 



The Manila heron is well known to the natives as "la-pai." It was common in 

 old flooded rice fields in the vicinity of Guindulman where an adult female was 

 taken, June 3. 



Ardea sumatrana Raffles.* 



June 8 a trip was made to the town of Cogtang 6 on the west coast five miles 

 from Guindulman for the purpose of visiting some small islands near there. 

 The islands proved to be low and covered with a heavy growth of mangroves 

 where, except Cinnyris jugularis, no land bird was seen. However, two speci- 

 mens of the great slaty heron were killed from fish corrals where they had been 

 sampling the catch. The species is known locally as "du-ting" and is said to 

 appropriate a considerable number of fish. As the natives have no firearms, 

 little or nothing can be done to prevent the depredations of the herons. The 

 following data were taken from the two birds mentioned above. Male; iris, red; 

 bill, black, lower mandible, yellow near tip, becoming white toward its base; legs 

 and claws, blackish brown. Total length, 67.0 inches; wing, 19.30; tail, 7.25; 

 tarsus, 6.70; culmen, 7.10. Female; length, 55.0; wing, 18.0; tail, 6.40; tarsus, 

 6.00; culmen, 6.45. 



Mesophoyx intermedia Wagl. 



Ardea intermedia Steere, List. Philip. Birds (1890), 26 (Bojol). 

 Steere appears to be only person to have recorded this species for Bohol. 



Egretta garzetta (Linn.). 



Herodias garzetta Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 712. 

 A female from Tagbilaran. 



Demiegretta sacra (Gm.). 



Ardea jugularis Steere, List. Phi. Bds. (1890), 26. 



The reef heron was fairly common near Guindulman and on tide flats between 

 that town and Tagbilaran. The name "ta-bon" is sometimes used to designate 

 this species but is usually applied to Bubulcus coromandus only. 



" On a map I find the above spelling given but the natives certainly pronounced 

 it Cug-tflng. See Atlas of the Philippine Islands, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, Special Pub., No. 3 (1900), map 23. 



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