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both 0. mongolus and 0. veredtcs have been taken in Palawan by 

 previous collectors. 



Numenius variegatus (Scopoli). 



At Sarong on March 18 I sav^^ a number of curlews on the 

 coral reef at low tide, but they were exceedingly wary, and I 

 had difficulty in securing specimens. The reef was broad and 

 the curlews kept to the seaward edge of it in company with 

 numerous individuals of DeTnigretta sacra and Bubulcus coro- 

 mandits, some of which always took alarm, if the curlews did 

 not, and startled the whole flock into hasty flight, the result 

 being that whenever I attempted to cross the intervening space 

 of reef the entire company would be off and away long before 

 I got within range. By taking a stand on the beach and waiting 

 for fifteen or twenty minutes, however, I succeeded in so dis- 

 arming the suspicion of the birds that they worked their way 

 gradually into gunshot range and I was able to secure two of 

 them before they got away again. Both individuals were fe- 

 males, and both were remarkable for their unusually long bills 

 which measured 90 and 91.5 millimeters along the culmen, re- 

 spectively, about the maximum for A^ variegatiis. 



Actitis hypoleucos (Linnaeus). 



This common sandpiper, the only representative of its genus 

 in the Islands, was frequently seen along the seashore or river 

 banks or at the edges of forest pools. Although numerous it 

 was very solitary in habits. I found it at all points visited. 



[Pisobia sp? 



There were one or two small sandpipers belonging to this 

 group found occasionally along the reefs at low tide in the 

 vicinity of Brooke's Point, while others were seen at Sarong al- 

 though no specimens were taken. Most of them were probably 

 P. ruficollis (Pallas), which is common and widely distributed 

 in the Islands, but some of them may have belonged to the 

 rarer P. damacensis Horsfield. Both forms have been recorded 

 from Palawan.] 



GEDICNEMID^ 

 Orthorhamphus magnirostris ( Vieillot) . 



At Tagbariri on April 6 I saw an Australian stone plover 

 alone on a reef which was cut off from the mainland by a 

 channel of deep water. It was impossible to get within range 

 and an experimental shot only had the effect of driving the 

 bird to the far side of the reef, whence it shortly took flight 

 seaward for a more distant islet. 



