THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



D. General Biology, Ethnology, 

 AND Anthropology 



Vol. XIII • JANUARY, 1918 No. 1 



NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE BIRDS, II 



By Richard C. McGregor 



(From the Section of Ornithology and Taxidermy, Biological Laboratory, 



Bureau of Science, Manila) 



THREE PLATES AND TEN TEXT FIGURES 



This paper includes a record of the monkey-eating eagle from 

 a new locality in Luzon, comments on several species of terns and 

 shore birds, and notes on some other Philippine species of more 

 or less interest. 



Megapodius cumingi Dillwyn. 



The tabon is so seldom seen in Luzon that the fact of its 

 breeding in Tayabas Province, as verified by the egg that was 

 received with the following letter, seems worthy of publication : 



Gumaca, Tayabas, Mar. 25, 1911. 



While working in the woods about six miles from Gumaca yesterday 

 a native called my attention to a small hole in the ground in which he 

 said a bird had a nest, and after digging about five feet I came upon 

 four eggs, one of which I am mailing you under separate cover. 



The eggs v/ere laid on a mass of rotting wood and mold and all around 

 the hole was the same thing. I presume the heat generated by the 

 decaying stuff is the means of hatching the eggs. * * * 



John W. Willey, 

 Constructing Lineman, 



Bureau of Posts. 



Leucotreron merrilli McGregor. Plate I. 



Leucotreron merrilli McGregor, Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1916), 

 11, 269, fig. 1. 



After I had written the description of Merrill's fruit pigeon, 

 Mr. E. E. Schneider told me of a living pigeon in his possession 



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