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Mandayas, Their domestic animals ere chickens, pigs, dogs, cats, and once 
I saw a brown dove in a cage, 
(At 9:2? passed Gerona, a Mand&yan village.) The houses we have seen 
were raised from 6 to 2C feet above the ground. They are shallow, low af- 
fairs much like the Fish Hawk nests on stumps along the Atlantic coast. All 
are entered by climbing a pole with deep notches cut in it. The higher ones 
often have an additional hand rail. (Note of Bxitorides like our Green Heron's. 
The naked-headed Starling utters a cry like the Lesser Yellow-legs. ) The 
houseware of bamboo and sticks, thatched with grass and palm and surrounded by 
matting walls. One cannot always stand erect even where there are no 
shelves. Shot and skinned a Bu torides , male adult. Large, long- tailed 
brown Pigeons, one White-bellied Sea Sagle, Passed two rivers, 1st on 
right bank just above a village, 2nd larger on left bank* One small, blue 
and brown Kingfisher. 
Passed mouth of small river Libuton at 12:05* Flocks of Calao (Horn- 
bills) and big Pigeons, Flock of 5 white-headed Storks flew from the river 
and alighted in a big tree. High banks c 16 sing in on the right bank, not 
on the left. Bamboo rafts all along for crossing* High banks on both 
sides now, (X2;43) White headed Hawk, One small Hornbill, Jungle Cock 
crowing. Landed at Jativa at 2 P, M. Visited the church and convent. 
Shot 4 big Pigeons, 3 Cockatoos and a Ra incrow. Skinned the last (female 
ad&lt) Red-bellied and black- throated small Ring Plover, Sunbirds were first 
seen on the Agues n at Jativa, Also small Brown and dark metallic green and 
chestnut Pigeons, The brown-breasted Thrush was common, as were Raquet- 
tailed Parrots, Quake Birds common. Ine small blue and brown Kingfisher* 
Many Starlings and Barbets, Largest Woodpecker, 
May 7, 1904 . 
Started At 6 A, M, Many big Pigeons, small brown dove, raincrow^, naked- 
headed Starlings, Orioles, Plotus, Tringoides, Paraquets, Raquet- tailed Par- 
rots, large Green Parrot, Cockatoo, Brown and black Hornbill, largest food- 
pecker, Tringoides, Small R5.ng Plover, Brown Java Sparrow, No Eutoride?/ lo- 
ci ay No white-headed Kingfishers seen on the Agusan River, One peculiar, 
very small, grayish Kingfisher seen flying. Many white-headed Hawks, and a 
Hawk about like Broad-wing. A yellowish bird size and color of female Summer 
Tanager, Many Orioles, Barbets, Red-bellied^nd Black-throated Sunbirds. 
Many blue and chestnut Kingfishers, Many short-tailed Hirundos (One shot 
yesterday) but no long-ts iled ones* One Butorides, Many dusky Swifts, 
Ignamos* Occasional cocoaihuts, Plocl of small white-headed Horhbills called 
Boo-by by the M&ndayan boatmen. One small brown Kingfisher with a blue head. 
One very small black and white Kingfisher. Flock of Merops bicolor. 
