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Show 1878.] ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 611 of which were obtained from a dealer at Singapore ; but the exact locality of their habitat could not be satisfactorily determined. Care must be taken not to confuse Tudicula of H. and A. Adams with Tudicla of Bolton, of which genus T. (Murex) spirillus of Linnaeus is the type. 6. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines.- No. IX. O n the Collection made by M r . A. H . Everett in the Island of Palawan1. 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 Maj 16, 1878.] (Plates XXXVII. & XXXVIII.) Until visited by Dr. Steere in July 1874, when he remained for a month at the Spanish settlement of Puerto Princesa, the island of Palawan, so far as is on record, had not been explored by any naturalist. Nothing was known of its zoological productions ; and its exact relationship as a zoogeographical area remained an unsolved problem. During his stay at Puerto Princesa Dr. Steere collected examples of 32 species of birds, all of which have been enumerated by Mr. Sharpe2. At the end of November 1877 Mr. A. H. Everett arrived at Puerto Princesa, and remained until the beginning of January, when, becoming disabled by fever, he was obliged to return to Manilla to recruit his health. He, however, succeeded in collecting specimens of 52 species of birds, 32 of which are additional to those obtained by Dr. Steere. This last gentleman discovered 12 species not sent to me by Mr. Everett ; so that the total of known Palawan species of birds (and all are from Puerto Princesa and its vicinity) now amounts to 64. This small number cannot exhaust the avifauna of this large island ; and as Mr. Everett is now happily recovered, and has returned to Palawan, I propose postponing any remarks on the character of the Palawan ornis until we are in possession of the wider evidence which further collections will doubtless supply. Generally, however, it may be affirmed from the data before us that the birds of Palawan represent mostly Bornean genera and species, although a few distinctly Philippine types also occur. The following species in the present collection have not hitherto been described :- 4. Tiga everetti. 22. Brachypus cinereifrons. 12. Dicrurus palawanensis. 25. Criniger palawanensis. 17. Broderipus palawanensis. 34. Cyrtostomus aurora. 19. Trichostoma rufifrons. 39. Corvus pusillus. 20. Drymocataphus cinereiceps. 1 I treat Palawan as being a Philippine Island in a political sense. It remains to be shown whether it does not in fact belong, zoologically, rather to Borneo. 2 Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zoology, vol. i. |