BIRDS OF ANTIQUE PROVINCE, PANAY, PHILIPPINE 
ISLANDS 
By Richard C. McGregor 
Ornithologist, Bureau of Science, Manila 
TWO PLATES 
This paper records the observations of myself and two as- 
sistants on the birds of Antique Province, Panay. From Iloilo 
we reached Tibiao by steamer on May 8, 1918. As there was 
no forest whatever in this locality, we moved to Culasi in the 
vicinity of which and at Flores somewhat better collecting ground 
was found. We finally took a small sailing boat at Lipata, 
which transported us around the northwestern point of Panay 
to the town of Ibajay where we took a steamship for Manila. 
Antique Province consists of a strip along the entire western 
side of Panay and includes also four small islands — Maralison, 
Batbatan, Manining, and Caluya. Its eastern boundary lies in 
a more or less continuous range of hills and mountains. In the 
northern and southern extremities this range approaches the 
coast so that the width of the province is less than 12 kilo- 
meters, but this gradually increases toward the center, in the 
region of Caritan and Bugason, where the eastern boundary is 
about 85 kilometers from the coast. If the four islands men- 
tioned above be disregarded, the province seems extremely long 
for its width. 
Except at the extremities the coast line is nearly straight, 
being thus very different from the outline presented by the 
northern and eastern coasts of Panay. On the entire coast of 
Antique Province Lipata Point, near Culasi, is the only place 
affording protection to vessels during storms from the south 
and the southeast. The water is deep close to shore along nearly 
the entire coast, so that at many places, when the sea is calm, 
small steamers can anchor just outside the surf and carry a stern 
line to the beach. These features combine to bring water trans- 
portation to a standstill during the southeast monsoon. A re- 
markable feature of this province is the great number of rivers, 
most of which are of necessity short, but many of them carry 
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