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Sept. 3rd, 1904, and is said to resemble the type elosely but 

 to possess broader shaft-stripes to the feathers, giving the 

 head a darker colour than that described by Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant. 



Capt. Joseph Clemens has published in the ' Condor ' a 

 photograph of a living specimen which he had kept in a 

 cage. It was brought into the market by the Moros, and 

 purchased by Lieut. Farrell of the 15th Infantry, U.S.A. 

 When a chicken was put into the cage it would take it when 

 hungry and eat it all, but otherwise only the entrails were 

 devoured. Unfortunately this bird broke its leg in trying to 

 force its way out of its cage, and had to be killed. 



Capt. Clemens proceeds : " I have since skinued and have 

 in my collection another specimen, and in this one I found 

 a monkey, not yet digested. The paws were torn off and 

 swallowed whole, then the next joint, and so on. It was 

 eateu hair and all." 



Mr. Richard C. McGregor refers to these two specimens iu 

 ' The Philippine Journal of Science ' for October, 1907, and 

 to a third specimen procured by Mr. Ickis, Geologist of the 

 Bureau of Science, on May the 11th, 1907. This was 

 apparently the first that was recorded from the island of 

 Luzon. The head, one wing and one foot only were brought 

 to Manila. 



The specimen which has recently come into the possession 

 of the Zoological Society of London was secured through the 

 untiring efforts of Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe, who has kindly 

 supplied me with the following notes on it from his note- 

 book of 1907. 



" There are in the museums of Manila four mounted 

 specimens : — two belonging to St. Thomas' University — from 

 Mindanao and Samar ; and two in the museum belonging: 

 to the Jesuit Fathers, one of which has been exchanged witli 

 the Bureau of Science. Mr. McGregor also possesses the 

 head and feet of another specimen in spirit. 



" After making inquiries as to which would be the most 

 likely place to find Pithecophacja jefferyi near Manila, for I 



