[8] As the Bureau of Science collection contains very few specimens belonging to the order Lariformes and as these are winter specimens only, the greater part of the specific descriptions of Philippine gulls and terns are copied from Saunders’s excellent work, in volume 25 of the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum. [↑]
[9] Cf. Bureau, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest France (1904), 14, 227–256. [↑]
[10] While I have examined specimens of nearly all the species in this order which are known to occur in the Philippine Islands the material available to me is unsatisfactory as a basis for specific descriptions. This is due to the fact that most of the species under consideration are migrants and can be taken in the Philippines in non-breeding plumage only. Rather than present descriptions based upon inadequate material I have included here numerous quotations from Sharpe’s monograph of the Limicolæ (Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, volume 24) and from other standard works. [↑]
[11] The Ticao specimen was listed as Numenius arquata, McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List, p. 24; it is really a specimen of N. variegatus. [↑]
[12] “Ocrophus” is said to be a misprint. [↑]
[13] Cf. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. (1907), 24, 20. [↑]
[14] See also footnote under Ixobrychus cinnamomeus, p. 179. [↑]
[15] Cf. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. (1907), 24, 36. [↑]
[16] Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. (1887), 10, 289, places this species in his subgenus Nannocnus and gives the following key:
- a1. Tibiæ feathered nearly to the heel-joint; longest tail-feathers longer than middle toe without claw (Ardetta). A. sinensis
- a2. Tibiæ naked at the lower
end, longest tail-feathers shorter than middle toe without claw
(Nannocnus).
- b1. Quills and tail-feathers blackish. A. eurhythma
- b2. Quills and tail-feathers cinnamon-rufous. A. cinnamomea