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Iris king's yellow ; cere and face dull greenish yellow ; 

 feet straw-yellow ; bill black, base bluish. 



6. AcciPiTbH MANiLLENsis Mcycn. (Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 438 ; 1896, pp. 108, 109 ; 1897, p. 312.) 



A species occasionally met with in forests at high eleva- 

 tions. We obtained specimens up in the mountains of Luzon 

 as high as 8000 feet; one, a nearly adult male, was shot in 

 Leite at 1000 feet ; and in Mindoro one of these Sparrow- 

 Hawks settled for a moment close to our camp, but was off 

 again before I could reach my gun : this was at 4500 feet. 



$ . Iris and orbital skin, bright king's yellow ; bill tipped 

 with black, base dull blue ; cere green ; legs dull yellow. 



7. AcciPiTER GULARts (Temm. & Schleg.). (Grant, Ibis, 

 1896, pp. 104-109.) 



A female of this little Sparrow-Hawk was obtained during 

 our enforced stay on Fuga Island, where it was probably 

 migrating northwards, the island at the time being full of 

 migratory birds ; this was in the middle of April, 1895. 



? . Iris pale straw-yellow ; bill tipped with black, bluish 

 at base ; cere and legs pale king's yellow. 



8. PiTHECOPHAGA jEFFERYi. (Grant, Ibis, 1897, pp. 214- 

 220, pi. V. figs. 1-4.) 



Of this remarkable bird we obtained a male specimen 

 in the forests of Samar. This fine Eagle, one of the 

 largest birds of prey inhabiting the Old World, is possibly 

 allied to Spilornis, as well as to the Harpy Eagles of South 

 America. 



When in Benguet the natives told me that sometimes their 

 small pigs were carried away by Eagles. This, I thought at the 

 time, might be done by some of the northern species during 

 their winter migration, little dreaming that such a fine bird 

 as Pithecophaga remained unknown to the scientific world. 

 During our first expedition to the island of Samar in July 

 1895, we made a fine collection of birds, all of which were 

 burnt on board ship in Singapore. Great as was my loss, 

 the capture of this fine bird compensated for it, as doubtless 



