from the Island of Negros. 4<77 



This Negros specimen is a young bird in an interesting 

 phase of plumage, i. e. showing the first, but slight traces 

 of maturity. The upper parts are deep brownish black, the 

 feathers edged with deeper bluish black ; the scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts with a few lavender feathers 

 barred with black ; the cheeks entirely black ; the chin and 

 throat creamy white washed with buff and with fine black 

 central streaks ; the breast and upper abdomen pale chest- 

 nut heavily streaked with black ; the flanks pale chestnut 

 heavily barred with black ; the lower abdomen, under tail- 

 coverts, and thighs greyish buff heavily barred with black, 

 and showing on the abdomen and thighs a few lavender 

 feathers barred with black. These new lavender abdominal 

 and tibial feathers indicate most unmistakably that this 

 specimen is a young example of F. atriceps, Hume, a bird 

 which the late Mr. Gurney regards as a subspecies of 

 F. peregrinator, Sundevall. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney has examined this bird and compared 

 it with the skin of F. atriceps in the Norwich Museum, and 

 he endorses my views regarding the identity of this specimen. 



This rare Indian bird is an interesting addition to the 

 avifauna of the Philippines. It has recently been obtained 

 at and recorded for Foochow, China, under the name of 

 F. melanogenijs ('Ibis,' 1894, p. 223), but the Rev. H. H. 

 Slater, who has examined the specimen, pronounces it to be 

 F. atriceps. 



This specimen was shot by Mr. Keay in March 1895 while 

 in the act of killing one of his domestic pigeons in front of 

 his house. Mr. Keay tells me that he often sees falcons 

 about, and he is of opinion that they are resident in the 

 mountains inland. 



Circus melanoleucus (Forster). 



This is an interesting specimen. It is practically in the 

 plumage of the adult male, but it lacks the characteristic broad 

 white band on the inner margin of the wing, formed by the 

 lesser wing-coverts being almost entirely of that colour. 

 In the place of this it has only the cubital or inner edge of 



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