﻿346 m'gregor. 



Halcyon chloris (Bodd.). 



A young female with banded breast was taken July 6. On one occasion a 

 kingfisher was observed to dart down and strike a half-grown chicken in the head, 

 causing its death within half an hour. 



Salangana marginata (Salvad.). 

 This little swift was very abundant. 



Cypselus pacificus (Lath.). (Pis. IV and V, fig. 1.) 



This fine bird was often seen near the beach but seldom within gunshot. A few 

 specimens were killed. 



Cypselus subfurcatus Blyth. (Pis. IV and V, fig. 2.) 



Micropus sulfurcatus Harteet, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 16, 457. 



A male swift, taken June 26 in company with birds of the preceding species, 



belongs with little doubt to the above, which is new to the list of Philippine birds. 



Eudynamis mindanensis (Linn.). 



A male and two females were taken. Although abundant, this species was 

 rarely seen. 



Centropus viridis (Scop.). 



Abundant; a very small, young bird was taken July 2. 



Pitta erythrogaster Temm. 

 Very abundant. 



Hirundo javanica Sparr. 



Abundant. 



Hirundo striolata (Boie). 



This swallow was often seen in considerable numbers in company with Cypselus 

 pacificus and I have but little doubt that it breeds on Camiguin, as specimens 

 killed were young of the year. 



Camiguinia. new genus of Muscicapida?. 



Type. — Camiguinia personata, sp. now 



Generic characters. — First primary little more than half of second; fifth, long- 

 est, fourth and sixth, a trifle shorter; tail about equal to wing and slightly 

 graduated; bill moderately flattened as in Cyanomyiasj culmen less than tarsus 

 and equal to middle toe with claw; rictal bristles, longer than bill from nostril; 

 feathers of chin, lores, and forehead, short, soft, and pile like; feathers of crown, 

 more or less scale like; occipital crest short and full. 



This genus differs from Cyanomyias in lacking the greatly lengthened crest and 

 the antrorse loral plumes and differs from Hypothymis in having the feathers of 

 crown and crest scale-like, instead of soft and velvety. 



Camiguinia personata, sp. nov. 



Type. — No. 0541, ^ adult, Bureau of Science Collection; Camiguin Island, 

 Cagayan Province, Philippines; June 20, 1907; R. C. McGregor and A. Celestino. 

 Length in flesh 0.1 inches; wing, 2.66; tail, 2.65; culmen from base, 0.58; bill 

 from nostril, 0.34; tarsus, 0.65. 



Description. — General color, light azure-blue; rump and upper tail coverts 

 lighter ; breast darker, frontal line, chin, lores, and a narrow, cifcumocular line, 

 velvety-black, forming a mask which is narrowly bordered behind with bright, 

 silvery, cobalt-blue, widest behind forehead and chin; middle of lower breast, 

 abdomen, under tail coverts, wing lining, and axillaries, white; wings and tail, 

 black, the exposed edges dark azure-blue, except first and second primaries; two 



