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specimens are from Brooke's Point, Candauaga, Bonabona, and 

 Balabac, and records only from Sarong and Tagbariri. 



PICID^ / 



Tiga everetti Tweeddale. 



Everett's three-toed woodpecker was moderately common and 

 well distributed over the region. I found it in the deeper parts 

 of the forest and sometimes in the thicker bits of scattered 

 woodland on the plains. My records are from all points visited 

 except Dadagican. Specimens are from Brooke's Point. 



Thriponax hargitti Sharpe. 



I found Hargitt's black woodpecker to be rare and shy in the 

 vicinity of Brooke's Point; at the other localities I did not find 

 it at all. It is possible that there was only a single pair near 

 Brooke's Point. I rarely saw more than one bird, which was 

 very restless and shy, continually moving from place to place 

 in the forest. I never got within range of it until March 17. On 

 that day, while crossing a swampy section of woods, I happened 

 to take shelter from a sudden downpour of rain on the leeward 

 side of a large tree whose buttressed roots furnished ample pro- 

 tection from the shower. While there I heard the call note of 

 the species with which I had become familiar, and on looking 

 out from my retreat I saw one of the woodpeckers on a tall, dead 

 tree nearby, just within range. I dropped it from where I 

 stood, retrieved it, and returned to my shelter. Again I heard 

 the unmistakable note and looked out just in time to see a second 

 bird edging out of sight around the dead tree trunk. I circled 

 the bole in the opposite direction, but the woodpecker had evi- 

 dently taken flight when out of my sight around the trunk, and 

 I did not get it. It was the last time I saw the species in Pala- 

 wan. My specimen was a male. I have carefully compared 

 this specimen with the series from Masbate in the collection of 

 the Bureau of Science with which it seems to agree perfectly. 

 Palawan is the type locality of this species but as has been 

 pointed out by other workers it is strange that the Masbate bird 

 is conspecific, in the case of the present genus. 



PITTID^ 

 Pitta propinqua (Sharpe). 



I searched for the Palawan pitta the whole time that I re- 

 mained in the region, but it was near the end of my investiga- 

 tions before I found it. On March 31 I found a lone individual 

 in the heart of a bit of jungle, quite close to the settlement at 



