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It is strange that so large a bird as the glossy ibis was not 

 recorded from the Philippine Islands until 1905. Mearns says 

 that "great numbers of glossy ibises frequent the lakes and 

 rivers of Mindanao," and he mentions having had two specimens, 

 one of which he sent to the United States National Museum. 

 Mr. W. Cameron Forbes, then Governor-General of the Philip- 

 pine Islands, told me that in March, 1910, he saw many ibises 

 on Bulusan Lake, in the interior of Cotabato Province, Min- 

 danao. As he expressed it, "there were easily hundreds" of 

 ibises. Mr. Forbes collected two specimens in Mindanao in 



Fig. 7. Plegadis autumnalis (hinTiiBVis) . One-half actual size. 



1913, one of which (No. 13279) he presented to the Bureau of 

 Science; the other was sent to Harvard College. Mr. A. 0, 

 Zinn collected a glossy ibis on Laguna de Bay, Luzon, which he 

 presented to the Bureau of Science (No. 13278). This speci- 

 men was killed on November 15, 1911; it is a male in winter 

 plumage. Dr. H. C. Curl, formerly stationed at the Caiiacao 

 Naval Hospital, Cavite Province, contributed a fine skin of the 

 glossy ibis (No. 12930) to the Bureau of Science collection. 

 This is a female in summer plumage and was killed by Doctor 

 Curl near Cavite on September 14, 1909. 



