PERxis. 235 



Male from Bantayan. — Length, 330; wing, 300; tail, 143; culmen from 

 base, 25 ; tarsus, 36. 



Female from Manila. — Bill and nails black; iris carmine; cere, gape, 

 and legs chrome-yellow. Length, 355 ; wing, 300 ; tail, 138 ; culmen 

 from base, 25 ; tarsus, 34. 



An immature female from Bohol is like the adult but the wing-feathers, 

 including the black coverts, are widely tipped with white, and the feathers 

 of crown and nape are edged with white and a little buff giving the head a 

 streaked appearance. Iris light yellow; bill and nails black; cere waxy 

 yellow; feet bright chrome-yellow. 



"Female, not quite adult (type). — Above ashy gray, scapulars and 

 quills plainly tipped with white, and washed with rusty brown, especially 

 on the interscapular region; crown white, the hinder part inclining to 

 ashy gray, plainly streaked with rusty brown ; wing ashy gray, primaries 

 darker, all the quills, as well as the coverts tipped with white, the lesser 

 and median coverts black, forming a conspicuous shoulder patch ; tail 

 white, shaded with ashy toward the tip, the two center feathers entirely 

 ashy gray; under surface of body entirely white, including the under 

 wing-coverts; under surface of quills deep ashy gray toward the tip, 

 whitish at base. Cere yellow; bill black; feet yellow; iris red. Length, 

 368; culmen, 28; wing, 305; tail, 157; tarsus, 38." (Sharpe.) 



"Quite abundant about the open fields, but difficult to shoot. Iris 

 bright red; legs and feet yellow; nails black; bill black, except cere and 

 gape which are bright yellow." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



"The sole egg of the Philippine black-winged kite in the collection is 

 a blunt oval, smooth, and devoid of gloss. It is white, thickly smeared 

 especially at the large end, Anth two shades of brown. It measures : 

 41.9 by 31.7 mm." (Oates.) 



The egg described above was collected by Everett in Mindoro, Decem- 

 ber 14. 



Genus PERXIS Cuvier, 1817. 



Bill small, elongate, the cutting edge regular or slightly sinuate ; nostril 

 a narrow slit ; side of head covered with short close-set feathers ; no bristles 

 nor hairs about base of bill ; wings long, primaries obliquely cut on inner 

 webs; tail composed of long wide feathers; tarsus feathered in front for 

 its upper half, its remaining surface covered with small scales. 



\m. PERNIS PTILORHYNCUS (Temniinok) . 

 CRESTED HONEY BUZZAKD. 



Falco iJtUorhi/ncu.s Tkximinck, PI. Col. livr. 8 ( 1821 ), 1, 44. 



Pernis ptilonorhi/nchus Hhari'E. Cat. Birds Brit. ^fus. ( 1874). 1, 347; Hand- 

 List ( 189!)), 1, 271 ; Oates, Cat. Birds' Efigs ( 1902), 2, 29.3. pi. 14, fig. 

 4; McGRK(iOK and Worck.ster, Iland-List (190(5), 44. 



Pernis cristatus Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895). 3, 400 (part), 

 fig. 98 (head) ; Grant, Ibis (1897), 213. 



