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Actitis hypoleucos (Linnaeus). 
One specimen of the common sandpiper was collected at Ti- 
biao in May. $ 
Heteropygia aurita (Latham) . 
A small flock of sharp-tailed sandpipers was seen near Cu- 
lasi on May 16. One female was very fat, and its ovary con- 
tained large ovules. The plumage of this specimen agrees well 
with the description of the breeding plumage and is indistinguish- 
able from that of a female collected by me in Batan Island, 
Batanes, north of Luzon, on May 29, 1907. Panay is the fourth 
Philippine island from which this sandpiper is now known. 
Rostratula capensis (Linnaeus) . 
Specimens of the painted snipe were collected near Culasi. 
Pyrrherodia manilensis (Meyen) . 
Specimens of this large heron were collected near Culasi. 
Demigretta sacra (Gmelin). 
A reef heron from Maralison, June 18, is almost entirely pure 
white. There are a few blackish feathers on the head, the neck, 
the wings, and the thighs. The neck is well sprinkled with 
blackish feathers, and the dark color is conspicuous on the 
axillars and the wing lining. This heron, while not abundant, 
is widely distributed in the Philippine Islands, but I do not re- 
member having seen a white one before. An individual in the 
ordinary dark blue plumage was seen on Batbatan. 
Nycticorax manillensis Vigors. 
An immature specimen of the Philippine night heron was 
killed near Culasi on July 21. 
Butorides javanica (Horsfield) . 
This small heron was seen near Culasi. 
Ixobrychus astrologus Wetmore, 
Ixobrychus sinensis McGregor, Man. Philip. Birds (1909) 178 (Philip- 
pine localities) . 
Ixobrychus sinensis astrologus Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 
31 (1918) 83 (Paete, Laguna, Luzon, type locality; and Panay). 
This neat little bittern was abundant near Culasi; two speci- 
mens were preserved. Wetmore has separated the Philippine 
little yellow bittern as a subspecies with the following char- 
acters : 
