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Loriculus regulus Souance is found in the central islands Negros, Gui- 
maras, Panay, Masbate, and Ticao. 
Loriculus chrysonotus Sclater is confined to Cebu. 
Loriculus siquijorensis Steere is confined to Siquijor. 
Loriculus worcesteri Steere inhabits Samar, Leyte, and Bohol. 
Loriculus apic'alis Souance is known from Mindanao, Dinagat, and Bazol. 
Loriculus dohertyi Hartert is confined to Basilan. 
Loriculus bonapartei Souance inhabits Sulu, Tawitawi, and Bongao. 
It is important to note that the genus Loriculus has no repre- 
sentative in Palawan, on the west, and in the Babuyanes and 
the Batanes, north of Luzon. 
On the basis of evidence afforded by the distribution of en- 
demic species, such as those just given, Steere^® divided the 
Islands into subprovinces, and most of these divisions have sur- 
vived the test of more detailed work based upon much more 
material. 
The sub-provinces proposed are — first, the Northern Philippines, con- 
sisting of Luzon and Marinduque, and a number of other small islands 
about Luzon; second, Mindoro; third, the Central Philippines, made up 
of the islands of Panay, Negros, Guimaras, Zebu, Bohol, and Masbate; 
fourth, the Eastern Philippines, comprising the islands of Samar and 
Leyte; fifth, the Southern Philippines, embracing the great island of 
Mindanao, with Basilau [sic], and perhaps Sulu; and sixth, the Western 
Philippines, consisting of the islands of Paragua or Palawan, and Balabac. 
In the main Steere’s subprovinces are the same as the divi- 
sions now recognized. It seems rather curious that Steere 
made no use of previous records, even the results of his own 
first trip to the Islands seemingly being ignored by him. He 
says 
In this study only collections made by the members of the [Steere] 
party have been used. * * * About five thousand specimens of birds 
were collected by the party, these belonging to about four hundred species. 
They were collected on seventeen distinct islands of the archipelago, which 
were chosen, from their size and location, as representative of the whole. 
These collections, while not comprising examples of all the species 
known from the islands, are so nearly complete that any just conclusions 
drawn from their study must be accepted as truths which further ex- 
ploration will only strengthen. 
Everett has published an excellent paper in which is pre- 
sented the evidence for considering that Palawan and Balabac 
are more strongly Bornean than Philippine. Everett has also 
Nature 39 (1888) 37, 38. This article is dated “Manila July 2, 1888.” 
"Ibis VI 6 (1894) 412. The article in the Auk differs slightly from 
this. 
"Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1889) 220-228. 
"Ibis VII 1 (1895) 21-39. 
