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Show 708 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [June 18, Tabular List (continued). BOMBYCES. Ehaphidognatha hainana Pidorus glaucopis Chalcosia nympha Euschema militaris , Utethesia pulchella Aristh ala hainana Pantana ampla PYRALES. Lepyrodes geometralis .. 8. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines.- No. X. On the Collection made by Mr. A. H. Everett in the Island of Bohol. By ARTHUR, Marquis of TWEEDDALE, F.R.S., President of the Society. [Received June 14, 1878.] The island of Bohol lies between Leyte and Zebu, and is situated about seventy miles N.W. of Mindanao. It has a length of about forty miles and a breadth of thirty miles. After leaving Leyte, Mr. Everett stopped for a week at Talibon, on the north coast of the island, and then left for Palawan, while his brother proceeded to the interior of the island to collect. There he found a country covered with grass 12 feet high, and with no forest except on the tops of a few hills. Birds were scarce ; and he had to return stricken with fever. The collection obtained in North Bohol contains representatives of 47 species; and although all belong to previously known birds, seven of them have not been hitherto recorded as being inhabitants of the Philippines. These are :- Cisticola cursitans. Limosa lapponica. Alauda wattersi. Tringa albescens. Terekia cinerea. Strepsilas interpres. Lim icola p la tyrhy ncha. The rest of the species are generally distributed throughout the archipelago, with perhaps the exceptions of Lanius nasutus, which appears to be a northern form, and Orthotomus frontalis and Loriculus hartlaubi, which are southern species. c« 9 CO C CfD l PH t»> CS CS £ * * * cS • <H •3 • f l fr fc * * # * fl CS *s W O "•a c 3 CQ l-H * * * tt * tt cS CO o a o fr c« O TJ -a H1 * * cS fl -fl o * tt tt a es •i-i an |