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This species frequents the more open places near large forests, 

 ■where it is generally seen on the wing. 



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

 yellow. 



23. Falco tinnunculus Linn. (Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 439.) 



The Kestrel is often noticed hovering over the treeless 

 grass-covered hill-sides in North Luzon during the winter 

 mouths ; but it is a difficult bird to secure, owing to the vast 

 open distances, which afford no cover at all to the hunter. 

 This species had not been met with before in the Philippine 

 group. I saw several Kestrels near the Abra River on the 

 8th November. 



24. Pandion haliaetus Linn. 



Though observed several times on the large rivers of Luzon 

 and Mindoro, we did not obtain a specimen of the Osprey. 



25. PoLioAETUs icHTHYAETUs (Horsf.). (Grant, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 222). 



This Fish-Eagle generally frequents lagoons and river 

 estuaries in the vicinity of the sea-coast. In Samar, how- 

 ever, we obtained a pair up in the hills, which were fishing 

 in a clear stream running over limestone rocks. Though 

 this Eagle has not yet been recorded from Luzon, I saw it 

 several times in the mangrove-swamps of Cape Engafio. 



b. S TRI GE s. 



26. Bubo philippinensis (Gray). (Grant, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 503.) 



This large Owl reminds one very much oiKetupajavanensis, 

 the Malayan Fish-Owl, but the tarsus is bare of real feathers 

 in Ketupa and well feathered in Bubo, I am very much 

 inclined to think that this Bubo, which seems partial to rivers 

 and lakes, will be found to obtain some of its food in them. 



I met with three of these Owls in Benguet, in a river- 

 course which they frequented, for several nights before we 

 shot a pair, and I saw another in the Province of Isabella, 

 close to a larsre river. 



