collected in the Philippine Islands. 95 



species, like many tropical birds, is most active at sunrise 

 and sunset, it cannot, I think, be said to be crepuscular. 



19. MicROHiERAx MERiDioNALis. (Grant, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 220.) 



We met with this species of Microhieraa^ in Samar, where 

 it frequented old native clearings and the edges of forest, like 

 the preceding species. 



20. Falco peregrinus Tunst. 



This is a regular winter migrant to the Philippines. During 

 a few hours spent on Fuga Island (on the 14th April, 1895) 

 a Peregrine flew along the beach within a few yards of me ; 

 it was then on its way north to China, the Batanes Islands 

 forming convenient stepping-stones to the great Asiatic 

 continent. I also noticed a Peregrine in the island of 

 Catanduanes in the month of October. 



This species is a common winter migrant to Borneo and 

 other islands in the Malay Archipelago, and has been 

 obtained in several of the Philippine Islands. 



21. Falco ernesti Sharpe. (Grant, Ibis, 1898, p. 435.) 

 This beautiful Peregrine is no doubt a resident species in 



the Philippines, nesting in suitable cliffs, of which there are 

 an abundance in several of the islands, more especially in 

 North Luzon. I found the eyry of a pair in Negros con- 

 taining young (see Ibis, 1896, pp. 529, 530). In North 

 Luzon we obtained a beautiful specimen of a fully adult 

 male on the summit of Monte Data. 



Iris dark brown ; feet, orbital skin, and cere bright king^s 

 yellow ; bill black at tip, base bluish. 



22. Falco severus (Horsf.). (Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 439; 

 1896, p. 529.) 



This little Hobby is seldom met with by the traveller. I 

 saw one flying over the mountains at a great height in 

 Benguet, and obtained a perfect specimen of a male at over 

 7000 feet in Lepanto. A female shot on Canloon volcano, 

 in Negros, was evidently sitting, her breast being quite bare. 



