A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM NORTHERN MINDANAO. 



By RicHAED C. McGeegor. 

 {From the Zoological Section, Biological Lahoratory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



During the months of October, JSTovember, and December, 1907, 

 Mr. Andres Celestino, an assistant in the Bureau of Science, -was engaged 

 in collecting zooiogical specimens in northern Mindanao. He spent a 

 few days at Cagayan and nearly a month in the vicinity of Esperanza 

 on the Agusan Eiver ; the remaining time he employed at Butuan. The 

 present paper is a list of the birds collected by Mr. Celestino on this trip. 

 Most of these are species of wide distribution, or are already well known 

 from Mindanao, but the following I believe have not been previously 

 recorded from that island, namely : Mareca penelope, Tacliornis pallidior, 

 Camiguinia lielence, Eudrepanis pulclierrima, Oriolus samarensis and 

 Corvus samarensis. 



The capture of Chloropsis flavipennis in northern Mindanao is espe- 

 cialty noteworthy. Blasius had recorded this species from near Davao, 

 but the record had been considered somewhat doubtful. The Island of 

 Cebu is the only other locality where the species has been found. 



LIST OF SPECIES COLLECTED. 

 TRERONID/E. 



Osmotreron axillaris (Bonaparte). 



One adult male. 

 Phapitreron amethystina Bonaparte. 



Four males and one female from Butuan. These can not be distin- 

 guished from specimens collected in Bohol or in Luzon. 



Phapitreron brevirostris Tweeddale. 



One male and three females from Butuan. P. albifrons of Bohol is 

 closely related to this species, but differs in having the forehead white 

 and the subocular line decidedly brown instead of black. 



Muscadivores chalybura (Bonaparte). 



One specimen of the fruit pigeon is probably of this species. 



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