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a flock of at least one hundred common herons was seen near 

 Obando, Bulacan Province, Luzon, and an immature female 

 (Bureau of Science collection, No. 7370) was killed on the 15th. 

 An adult male (No. 13273) was collected by Celestino near 

 Lal-lo, Cagayan Province, December 19, 1913. 



Totanus stagnatilis Bechstein. 



Tetanus stagnatilis Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. (1803), 11, 293; 



Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 422; Hand-list Bds. (1899), 



1, 160. 

 Iliornis stagnatilis Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. (1829), 156. 

 Limosa horsfieldii Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1832), 163. 

 Iliornis horsfieldi MATHEWS, Bds. Australia (1913), 3, 200. 



Two Philippine bird skins in the Bureau of Science collection 

 have been identified by Dr. C. W. Richmond as Totanus stagna- 

 tilis Bechstein, a species not recorded from the Philippine 

 Islands. I have before me three other specimens of the same 

 species. All of these were collected in Luzon, as follows : 



^ Measurements of Totanus stagnatilis. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Cul- 

 men. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe 

 with 

 claw. 



13276 

 13277 

 13275 

 13196 



9 





Nov. 20, 1912 



.-—do 



Oct. 23,1914 



132 





39 

 42 



42 



52 

 53 



49.6 

 54 



mm. 



31 



31.5 



30.5 



33 



30 



— -do.__ 



Dagupan, Pangasinan. 



131 1 58 

 135 60 











1 











It is probable that the Philippine specimens belong to the 

 species Iliornis horsfieldi of Mathews, but as I have not the 

 necessary literature and specimens, I shall leave that question 

 to others, contenting myself with recording the species as a 

 migratory visitor to the Philippine Islands. 



Pycnonotus plumosus Blyth. 



Pycnonotus plumosus Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. (1845), 14, 567; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 152; Hand-list Bds. (1901), 

 3, 332;' Gates, Fauna Brit. India, Bds. (1889), 1, 292. 

 Laedorusa plmnosa Buttikoper, Notes Leyden Mus. (1896), 17, 240. 



' The footnote on page 329 of the Hand-list evidently has nothing to do 

 with the genus Pycnonotus, but probably was intended to appear on page 

 315 as a note to the name Micropus. See also Penthornis luzoniensis (Gm.) 

 Sharpe, Hand-list (1903), 4, 333. 



