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Streptopelia dussumieri (‘Temm.). 
Two specimens of this common dove were taken in ‘Tablas. 
Gallicrex cinerea (Lath.). 
Four eggs from Badajos, September 4, 1905. Measurements in inches: 1.53 
by 1.11; 1.50 by 1.09; 1.58 by 1.12; 1.56 by 1.10. Surface smooth, with a light 
gloss; ground color, creamy-white. The few spots are of medium size, irregular 
in outline and are scattered over the entire surface; in color they are dull 
lavender and dull reddish-brown. 
Lophotriorchis kieneri (Geoffr.) ? 
A hawk from Badajos seems to be an immature male of the above 
species. The following notes sufficiently characterize the specimen: 
Lores and a wide stripe above eye black, separated from the cere by an exten- 
sion of the white forehead patch, which also extends backward in a narrowing 
line above the black eye stripe; long crest feathers blackish, with light tips; 
rest of upper parts brown, nearly all the feathers with white or at least whitish 
tips, most pronounced on crown, and secondaries and their coverts; head and 
neck lightest brown, wings much darker; primaries and coverts, secondaries, and 
rectrices almost black, the last with conspicuous white tips and banded as in 
the adult, but more distinctly; quills also barred as in adult; entire lower parts 
pure white except a patch of light-brown feathers on each flank.’ 
Spilornis panayensis Steere. 
A male was obtained on Tablas September 12. 
Haliaétus leucogaster (Gm.) ? 
A specimen from Tablas is probably the young of this species but it 
does not agree very well with the descriptions. The identity of this 
specimen does not in any away affect the known distribution of the 
species, as the white-bellied eagle undoubtedly occurs in Tablas. 
Pernis ptilonorhynchus (‘'emm.). 
A female of the honey buzzard from Tablas, taken September 14, 
is extremely pale in coloration, the short, scale-like feathers of the 
lores being much lighter than in any of four other skins at hand. This 
great difference might lead one to suspect that they represent two species 
were it not for the known variation in this genus. Newton in his 
article on the honey buzzard in the Dictionary of Birds, page 427, says: 
“The species is still further remarkable for the great difference of coloration 
exhibited by individuals belonging to it, which have hitherto defied all attempts 
at reduction to what passes for “law”; but the widest variation is observable in 
young birds of the year, while the assumption of an ashy-grey head is held to 
indicate maturity.” 
Prioniturus discurus (Vieill.). 
Five specimens. 
Tanygnathus lucionensis (Linn.). 
A male from Badajos. 
1 An adult male of Lophotriorchis kieneri taken in Sibuyan, June 13, 1904, was 
accidentally misnamed on the tag and therefore omitted from my paper on birds 
of Sibuyan in Publications of the Bureau of Government Laboratories (1904), 25. 
