230 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"Adult male. — -Head black, feathers of crest sulphur-white at base, then 

 black, narrowly edged with whitish ; rest of upper surface with wings 

 light ashy brown, all the feathers edged with whitish. Tail broadly tipped 

 with white and with two broad whitish bars and part of a third basal one ; 

 throat bluish ash, unmarked ; rest of under surface pale cinnamon, shaded 

 with ash and spotted and banded as in S. hoJospilus. Length, 503 ; wing, 

 317; tail, 229; tarsus, 71. Distinguished from »S'. holospihis by its small 

 size and pale coloring." (Steere.) 



The validity of this species is somewhat doubtful. Bourns and Wor- 

 cester consider that it "was founded on differences due to change of season 

 and to individual variation." Grant thinks "that S. panayensis may fairly 

 be recognized as a distinct form." 



Genus BUTASTUR Hodgson, 1843. 



Bill small, its edge slightly sinuate ; wings moderate, primaries cut on 

 inner web ; first primary short ; secondaries much shorter than primaries ; 

 tarsus feathered in front for a short distance, a row of large hexagonal 

 scales in front, rest of tarsus with small hexagonal scales. 



189. BUTASTUR INDICUS (Gmelin). 



TIC- WEE BUZZARD. 



Falco indicus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 1, 264. 



Butastur indicus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 297; Hand-List 



(1899), 1, 266; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 278; McGregor and 



Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 43. 



Lim-bas', Manila and Liibang; tic-icec, in general; cu-yab\ Calayan. 



Balabac {Everett) ; Basilan (Steere Exp., McGregor) ; Batan N. (Edmonds*) ; 

 Bohol (Everett, Steere Exp.) ; Cagayaneillo (McGregor) ; Cagayan Sulu (Mearns) ; 

 Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Cebu (Eve- 

 rett, Steere Exp., Bourns cf Worcester, McGregor) ; Cuyo (Meyer) ; Fuga (White- 

 head) ; Giiimaras (Meyer); Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Whitehead, McGregor) ; Masbate (Bourns d- Worcester) ; Mindanao (Steere, 

 Koch c£- Schadenberg, Steere Exp., GoodfeUow) ; Mindoro (Everett, McGregor, 

 Porter) ; Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan (Everett, 

 Whitehead, Platen, Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panay (Steere, Steere Exp., 

 Bourns d- Worcester) ; Samar (Bourns d Worcester) ; Sibay (McGregor d Wor- 

 cester) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Sulu (Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester); Verde (McGregor). Ussuri-land; Japan; 

 China to Malay Peninsula ; Celebes. 



"Adult. — x\bove brown, inclining to ashy on head and upper back, and 

 to rufous on lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the latter of which 

 are plainly barred and broadly tipped with pure white; forehead white; 



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* Through the interest of ]\Ir. William Edmonds, teacher in the Batanes, a 

 specimen of the tic-wee buzzard from Batan has been sent to the Bureau of Science; 

 We are under obligations to Mr. Otto Sheerer for two live specimens of this 

 species which were caught in Batan. Still another tic-wee buzzard was captured 

 on board the L^. S. S. Albatross in the vicinity of Camiguin Island, north of Luzon. 



