﻿342 m'gregor. 



Whitehead gives the folloAving notes on the type of Callaeops periop- 

 II ml mica Grant: 



•The unique type of this interesting Paradise Flycatcher was purchased by 

 me in Manila. It had been shot by an Indian [Filipino] and left with the bird 

 staffer, unclaimed for years. 1 had expressed the desire to purchase this bird, 

 but could not prevail upon the Indian to part with it, until one afternoon, much 

 to my delight the man brought it to me, and I purchased it. The soft parts were 

 stated by my hunter (who skinned the bird) to have been pale blue, as in Zeo- 

 cephus rufus, which is probably quite correct. That this genus finds its nearest 

 allies in Arses is, I think, open to doubt. It more resembles Terpsiphone, from 

 which genus it differs in wanting a lengthened pair of center tail-feathers, which 

 are found only on apparently very old males. * * * The crest is also like 

 that of Terpsiphone, and not the short velvety-pile-like plumes of Arses." r ' 



The man from whom Whitehead secured the type has seen our series of Batan 

 birds and says that Callaeops was just like the adult male without the long cen- 

 tral tail-feathers. He also states that the type of Callaeops was killed with a blow 

 gun at Malabon, near Manila. 



The facts that the type of Callaeops periopthalmica has remained unique and 

 that it was killed in a region entirely unsuited to birds of this kind incline me 

 to think that it was taken far from its normal range and that possibly it was a 

 straggler from Batan. The identification of the Batan bird by this native as 

 being the same species as one seen by him some ten years ago is of little value. 

 Everything considered, to treat the Batan bird as a new species seems better than 

 to refer it to any previously described form. 



Hypsipetes batanensis Mearns. 



Mearns states that in H. batanensis the forehead is rufescent instead of cinere- 

 ous, but among 18 specimens from Batan I can detect no indication of a rufescent 

 forehead nor can I find any other difference in plumage between them and typical 

 fugensis. Birds of this genus from Batan are larger than those from Calayan and 

 Fuga and apparently the species H. batanensis must stand on that character alone. 



The Batan bulbul is very abundant and is known to the natives as "pi-uc'." 

 A set of eggs, two slightly incubated and one addled, was collected May 29. The 

 color of the eggs is pale salmon-pink obscured by longitudinal spots of umber- 

 brown ; there are also some obscure, deep, shell markings. These eggs measure : 

 1.21 by 0.82; 1.20 by 0.79; 1.19 by 0.81. 



Another set of nearly fresh eggs was taken June 3. The shell is faintly pink 

 and heavily spotted with rich umber brown but the spots less elongate than in 

 first set. These eggs measure: 1.25 by 0.86; 1.29 by 0.87; 1.21 by 0.83. 



Petrophila manilla Bodd. 



A few seen about the town; a female was taken May 29. 



Locustella ochotensis (Midd.). 



This species and the Acrocephalus were rather abundant for a short time; 

 specimens were taken May 29 and 31. 



Locustella faciolata (Gray). 



One male in adult plumage was collected May 29. 



Acrocephalus orientalis (Temm. and Sehl.J. 

 Three specimens were taken May 30. 



6 Whitehead: Ibis (1899), 5, 108. 



