NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM SIQUIJOR, 

 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



By EicHAKD C. McGregor. 



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

 Manila, P. I.) 



Siquijor is a coral-rock island with an area of about 235 square 

 kilometers; it lies in close proximity to the large Island of Negros, 

 there being little more than 19 kilometers of water intervening between 

 the two. As clearly explained by Worcester/ its birds must have come 

 into the island during comparatively recent times and three of these have 

 developed into well-marked representative species, namely, Dicceum hesti, 

 Loriculus siquijorensis, and lole siquijorensis. It is also noteworthy 

 that none of the Megapocliida, TurnicidcB^ Bucerotidm, Picidas, Dicru- 

 ridce, Sittidce, Paridw, or Timeliidce are known from Siquijor, although 

 each of these families has representatives in adjacent islands. 



The list of species here recorded is derived from a collection made 

 in Siquijor by Mr. Andres Celestino, assistant collector. Bureau of 

 Science, in September, 1907, and in April and May, 1908. There are 

 here listed nine species not previously known from Siquijor which 

 with the 87 species given by Worcester and Bourns - make a total of 

 96, and there seems to be little probability of this number being greatly 

 increased. 



LIST OF SPECIES NOV? EECOEDED FROM SIQDIJOK FOR THE FIRST TIME. 



Excalfactoria lineata. Oacomantis merulinus. 



Oalosnas nicoharica. Acanthopneuste borealis. 



Actitis hypoleucos. Motacilla melanope. 



Buhulcus coromandus. Anthus gusiavi. 

 Falco ernesti. 



^Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. (1898), 20, 581. 

 -Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. (1898), 20, 564. 



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