470 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



and wings, which do not show the broad rufous-cinnamon 

 edges on the upper wing-coverts/^ Count Salvadori is no 

 doubt perfectly correct, but there are one or two other points 

 to which I should like to draw attention. 



In the fully adult female the pale rufous barring on the 

 nape and mantle is very distinctly narrower than in young 

 birds; the rufous edgings to the feathers of the wing-coverts, 

 &c., are narrow but well-defined; the feathers of the fore-neck 

 are pale rufous, widely margined with black, and there are no 

 subterminal black bars across the rufous ends of the chest- 

 feathers, the grey bases being followed only by the wide 

 rufous margins. 



hi a very old female (from Basilan, Everett) the barring 

 on the hind-neck and mantle is reduced to mere finely- 

 freckled lines of buff, which are almost absent on the lower 

 parts of the mantle, the feathers being practically uniform 

 deep brown ; the rufous edgings on the wing-coverts, &c., 

 are mostly obsolete, except on the lesser coverts ; the fore- 

 neck is mostly dark sooty brown, with indistinctly marked pale 

 rufous shaft- stripes. This is the specimen of which Major 

 Wardlaw- Ramsay writes (Ibis,1890, p. 222): — ''One specimen 

 marked female (Basilan, Everett) is evidently young ; it has 

 the throat and breast black-brown, with a central streak or 

 spot of rufous on each feather.'^ I have now no hesitation 

 in saying that this is not a young bird, but, on the contrary, 

 the most adult female in the series. 



In young birds the barring on the nape and mantle is wider 

 and more extended, the rufous edgings to the wing-coverts, 

 &c., are vermiculated and less clearly defined, the black edgings, 

 to the feathers of the fore-neck are entirely absent, and there 

 is a subterminal blackish band across the middle of the rufous 

 ends to the breast-feathers. 



I may also call attention to the fact that specimens from 

 Manilla, Negros, and Palawan are considerably larger than 

 the birds from Zamboanga, Basilan, and Sulu. The wing of 

 adult males and females from Luzon varies from 7'3 to 7"6 

 inches, males from Negros measure 7"3 to 7"4, and a male 

 adult from Palawan has the wing 7'3; males and females from 



