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The Philippine Journal of Science 



1918 



The toes of this specimen were somewhat unusual in color as 

 follows: Soles of toes buff-yellow; tarsi and proximal joints of 



Fig. 6. GaUinaoo ■megaia Swinhoe. Two-thirds actual size. 



some toes chamois yellow; nail of hind toe on left foot black;, 

 all the other nails and some of the distal joints of all toes 

 mustard yellow. 



lobipes lobatus (Linnaeus). Fig. 6. 



Lobipes lobatus McGregor, Man. Phil. Bds. (1909), 149 (record of 

 specimen collected by Mearns in Basilan Straits), 728 (Luzon). 



Fig.. 6. Lobipes lobatus (liinnsBoa) . Actual size. 



A female northern phalarope in summer plumage was col- 

 lected in Basilan Straits by the late E. A. Mearns on April 19, 

 1906 (U. S. N. M. No'. 200775. B. S. No. 12901). Dr. and Mrs. 

 H. C. Curl collected a specimen (B. S. No. 12934) of this 

 species near Cavite, Luzon, on October 20, 1909. This speci- 

 men is in winter plumage. 



Plegadis autumnalis (Linnseus) . Fig. 7. 



Plegadis falcinellus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. (1898), 26, 29; 



Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Bds. (1898), 4, 364; Mearns, Proc. 



Biol. Soc. Washington (1905), 18, 89 (Mindanao). 

 Plegadis autumnalis McGregob, Man. Phil. Bds. (1909), 157. 



