476 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on Birds 



as in the former there is a large amount of red on the sides 

 of the head, between the red malar stripe and the red crown 

 and occiput, in the male. I have specimens of Steere's new 

 species from Masbate and Panay, and these certainly show 

 a spreading of red on the sides of the head, not, however, to 

 have suggested a specific difference from T. hargitti ; but as 

 Mr. Steere says the species has this character so very strongly 

 marked, we cannot doubt him, and we must accept his species. 

 Now your bird may have been this T. philippinensis , as it 

 might possibly occur in Negros. It appears more like the 

 latter than it does T. liargitti. I fear you will have to wait 

 for another specimen from Negros before you can decide." 



Centropus javanicus (Dumont). 

 A young bird. 



There is a specimen from Negros in the National Collec- 

 tion (Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix. p. 356). 



NiNox SCUTULATA (Rafflcs). 



NiNOx SCUTULATA (Raffles), subsp. lugubris (Tickell) ; 

 Blanford, Ibis, 1894, p. 524. 



One specimen, probably a female ; wing 9*2 inches. 



This example agrees with Mindanao specimens of Ninox 

 lugubris described by the late Mr. Gurney (Ibis, 1884, p. 170) 

 in having the outer webs of the primaries remarkably rufous, 

 and the paler interspaces on the tail decidedly tinged with 

 rufous. The tail has six exposed blackish bands and one 

 concealed narrower dark band. 



Though Prof. Steere (Ibis, 189^, p. 417) says that N. lu- 

 gubris seems to be distributed over the whole Philippine 

 Archipelago, yet it does not appear, so far as I have been 

 able to ascertain, to have hitherto been recorded for 

 Negros. 



Mr. Blanford, as indicated above, regards N. lugubris as a 

 subspecies oidy of N. scutulata. 



Falco atriceps, Hume. 



Falco peregrinator, Sund., subspecies atriceps, Hume ; 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1882, pp. 291-293, pi. x. 

 A young bird; wing 11"95 inches. 



