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of the largest islands. Possibly it occurs on Luzon only. Whitehead 

 did not meet with it, and neither the Steere expedition nor the Menage 

 expedition obtained a specimen. A specimen of this species in the 

 Museum was killed by Secretary Worcester in Tarlac Province, Luzon, 

 February 22, 1904. The two accompanying plates of the pelican are 

 from photographs of a live bird owned by Secretary Worcester. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.). 



Calayan. The first specimen was seen and killed October 26. This 

 bird retains some white feathers of the young plumage, and another, 

 taken November 11, is nearly pure white below. After this date three 

 or four cormorants took up quarters along the river. Known as "casili," 

 although this name belongs properly to the snake bird (Plotus). "Da- 

 lumpapa" and "papa" also are used as names for the cormorant by 

 people of Calayan. 



Circus spilonotus Kaup ; Sharpe, Cat. Bds., I, p. 58. 



About a dozen marsh hawks were collected on Calayan. Two of these 

 are nearly adult and seem to be C. spilonotus. Some of the young birds 

 agree with Sharpe' s description of the young of C. aruginosus, but after 

 reading what Grant says I believe these birds are the young of spilonotus. 

 (Cf. Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 437.) A small Circus from Ticao and three 

 from Calayan are probably immature examples of C. melanolrucus. 

 though we have no description of the young bird. 



Pitiiecopiiaga JEFFERYi Grant. 



The Philippine Museum has acquired by exchange a male of this fine 

 eagle. It is said that the bird came from Albay Province, Luzon. Senor 

 Andres Celestino tells me that it was taken alive and kept for some 

 time in a cage. This seems quite probable, as the tail is badly broken 

 and the primaries are clipped. Chord of culmen, 2.90; depth of upper 

 mandible at base of culmen, 1.46; width of upper mandible where cere 

 meets tomium, 0.66 ; tarsus, 3.88 ; tail, about, 13 ; wing over, 20. I feel 

 reasonably certain that I fired at a bird of this species at Irisan. I 

 believe there is no positive record of its having been taken in Luzon. 



Accipiter gularis (Temm. and Schl.). 



This little hawk- was fairly common on Calayan and easily killed in 

 the fringe of "butun" trees along the beach. The species seems to have 

 been migrating, as I saw none after October 4. One of these birds 

 killed September 22 had met with a curious accident. A twig about 5 

 inches long and one-eighth inch in diameter had passed through a fold 

 of skin back of the wing and about an inch of the twig protruded above. 

 I imagine the stick was picked up when the hawk struck at some bird 

 or lizard. 



Astur ctjculoides (Temm.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Bds., I, p. 115, PI. IV, fig. 2 ; 

 McGregor, Bull. Phil. Mus., No. 3, p. 15. 



