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Show 1878.] ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 339 time at Askwold, in Sond-fjord, by Mr. Christie-in all only six specimens. In the neighbourhood of Bergen five specimens were taken by Mr. Stuwitz, December 1834; in 1850 one specimen was found at Bongestrommen, near the town : in all six specimens. One specimen was dredged by Prof. G. O. Sars at Espevar, in the mouth of the Hardanger Fjord in August 1873. In tbe mouth of the Christiania Fjord two specimens were dredged in two different localities about 1860 ; finally, in the years 1875-77 I took twenty-eight specimens in nets between the islands off Christiania. In Sweden two specimens were found (in a dead state) in Bohuslen by Dr. Malm, in June 1877. March 19, 1878. Arthur Grote, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. Mr. Sclater exhibited the type specimen of Dicrurus marginatus of Blyth (Ibis, 1865, p. 46), belonging to the Derby Museum, Liverpool, and pointed out its identity with Muscipipra vetula (Licht.) of Southern Brazil, of the family Tyrannidae. The following papers were read:- 1. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines.-No. VI. O n the Collection made by M r . A . H . Everett in the Island of Leyte. By A R T H U R , Marquis of T W E E D - D A L E , F.R.S., President of the Society. [Received February 25, 1878.] The island of Leyte is about 130 miles long, and has an average breadth of 35 miles. It lies S.S.W. of Samar, its northern part lying in close contiguity to Samar. Zebu is situated to the west, and Dinagat to the south-east, while Mindanao is due south. Water-channels of unimportant breadth separate Leyte from these other islands. A peculiar ornis is therefore not to be expected, and Mr. Everett's researches have not made known any special feature. That gentleman, however, procured all the birds of which I propose to give a list at Amparo (on the south-west coast of Leyte) and in its vicinity. But Mr. Everett writes that he does not believe the collection he sends at all adequately represents the avifauna of Leyte, and he hopes to revisit it and explore the mountains in the centre and south of the island. The most interesting species is Buceros semigaleatus, a purely local form, distinguishable from the two previously known Philippine 22* |