Part 289

Corvus samarensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 23; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 110.

Mindanao (Celestino); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester).

Adult.--In color the same as Corvus pusillus, but smaller in size; bill somewhat shorter and deeper. A female from northern Mindanao measures: Length, 340; wing, 220; tail, 120; culmen from base, 47.5; bill from nostril, 34; depth of bill at nostril, 18; tarsus, 38.

"The Samar crow has the shy habits of C. pusillus, but its note is entirely different. We heard its note for a long time without suspecting that it was made by a crow. We occasionally found C. pusillus about the open fields, but never met with C. samarensis except on the sides of well-wooded hills. A male measures: Length, 355; wing, 252; tail, 116; culmen, 52; tarsus, 35; middle toe with claw, 45. Three females average: Length, 338; wing, 215; tail, 118; culmen, 48; tarsus, 46; middle toe with claw, 44. Iris dark brown: legs, feet, nails, and bill black. Food fruit and insects." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

Page 10: To localities for Megapodius cumingi add: Polillo (McGregor); under Luzon add: Bartsch.

Page 12: To names of collectors of Excalfactoria lineata, under Luzon, add: Bartsch.

Page 14: To localities for Gallus gallus add: Polillo (McGregor).

Page 27: To localities for Osmotreron axillaris add: Polillo (McGregor); under Negros add: Celestino.

Page 28: To names of collectors of Osmotreron vernans, under Luzon, add: Bartsch.

Page 30: To localities for Phapitreron amethystina add: Polillo (McGregor).

Page 33: To names of collectors of Phapitreron maculipectus add: Celestino.

Page 35: To names of collectors of Phapitreron nigrorum, under Negros, add: Celestino. To names of collectors of Phapitreron brevirostris, under Mindanao, add: Bartsch.

Page 35: Mearns has recently described a small brown pigeon from Samar.

PHAPITRERON SAMARENSIS Mearns.

SAMAR WHITE-EARED PIGEON.

Phapitreron samarensis Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1909), 36, 436.

"Characters.--Resembling Phapitreron brevirostris, but with forehead, chin, and throat whiter than in P. albifrons McGregor. From P. brevirostris it is readily distinguishable by the white forehead, chin, and upper throat, also by the much greater amount of coppery amethystine reflections on the crown, breast, and upper back, and by the usual absence of green reflections on the side of the hind head below the suborbital white stripe; and the under parts are much paler. From P. albifrons it may be at once distinguished by the different color of the under parts, which lack the olivaceous-gray on the breast, and by its more ochraceous abdomen; also the coppery reflections on the breast and upper back of P. samarensis are entirely absent in P. albifrons.

"Measurements of type (from well-made skin of female).--Total length, 230 mm.; wing, 124; tail, 95; culmen and cere (chord), 14; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 26. 'Eyes pink. Feet, base of mandible, and around eyes, dark purple. Tip of bill black. Egg taken from ovary.' (Bourns.)

"Measurements of adult male (Samar * * * ).--Wing, 129; tail, 95; culmen and cere (chord), 14.5; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 27." (Mearns.)

This species, if valid, will probably include all the small-billed brown pigeons from Samar and Leyte.

Page 37: To names of collectors of Leucotreron occipitalis, under Negros, add: Celestino.

Page 38: To localities for Leucotreron marchei add: Polillo (McGregor).

Page 43: To localities for Muscadivores nuchalis add: Lapac (Bartsch); under Luzon add: Bartsch. To localities for Muscadivores chalybura add: Polillo (McGregor); under Negros add: Celestino.

Page 44: To localities for Muscadivores ænea add: Masbate (Bartsch).

Page 45: An imperial pigeon from Palmas Island has been described as--

MUSCADIVORES PALMASENSIS Mearns.

PALMAS ISLAND IMPERIAL PIGEON.