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Hierococcyx fugax (Horsfield). 



I have four specimens of this interesting cuckoo taken on 

 Luzon. All but one are immature birds. Their habitat seemed 

 to embrace both the lower mountain slopes and the bamboo 

 thickets of the lowland. 



Table II. — Specimens of Hierococcyx fugax. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



1169 



1206 



859 



1087 



cTad. 

 cTimm. 

 $imm. 

 9iram. 



Mount Mariveles, Bataan Province, Luzon... 



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January 1, 1915. 

 April 2, 1915. 

 January 18, 1914. 

 October 9, 1915. 





Mount Maquiling, Laguna Province, Luzon 



Cuculus canorus Linnaeus. 



Philippine records for any of the species of the present genus 

 are not numerous, and Luzon records are quite lacking. A fine 

 male, which I collected on Mount Mariveles, Bataan Province, on 

 April 3, 1915, thus represents the first Luzon record of the pre- 

 sent species. My bird was taken along Lamao River at only 

 a few hundred feet elevation. (No 1207.) 



Centropus unirufus (Cabanis and Heine). 



On November 7, 1913, while among the mountains of Rizal 

 Province, Luzon, I shot a fine male rufous cuckoo, the first and 

 last one I ever encountered. (No. 783.) 



Pitta atricapilla Lesson. 



The black-headed pitta is not rare in the Philippines, and I 

 have specimens from several of the Islands. One female, which 

 I collected at Bondog Point, Tayabas Province, Luzon, varies 

 from the ordinary in the possession of more or less distinct, 

 though irregular streaking; this is in the form of obovate or 

 triangular marks along the shafts of certain feathers. On the 

 back and scapulars it is black, conspicuous against the shining 

 green of those parts, but on the breast and flanks it is a faint 

 drab, visible only in certain lights. A male from Balabac has 

 a trace of the dorsal streaking, but only two feathers are thus 

 marked. The Luzon bird is dated October 25, 1914. (No. 

 1118.) 



Hirundo gutturalis Scopoli. 



A male and a female Hirundo, taken at Las Piiias, Rizal Prov- 

 ince, Luzon, on September 19, 1915, are so near to H. rustica 

 Linnaeus that it is a question whether or not they should be 



