p. 143. 



310 ON THE BIEDS E^HABITIXG [1875. 



Dr. V. Martens appears to be tlie first and only author who has recorded the existence of a 

 Philippine species of the genus Ehnius. He identified it with the common African and Indian 

 Tr. Z. S is. species. I venture, however, to refer it to the Archipelagic form, E. hi/poleucus, Gould (P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 127), which appears to be equal to E. intermedius, Schlegel. 



Baza, Hodgson. 



19. *B.\ZA MAGXIROSTEIS. 



Baza magnirostris, G. E. Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Accipltr. p. 19, "Philippine Islands" 



(1844) ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 36. [Antea, p. 140.] 



Pernis crassirostris, Kaup, Jard. Contrib. Orn. 1850, p. 77, "Philippine Islands." 



Avicida magnirostris (Kaup), Bp. Comp. i. p. 20, no. 5 (1850) ; id. E. M. Z. 1855, p. 534, 



no. 114. 



Hab. Philippines (Cuming). 



Mr. Sharpe informs me that he considers the Celebean Baza specifically distinct from the 

 Philippine (fo«/. Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 36). [Antea, p. 140.] 



BuTASTUE, Hodgson. 



20. BUT.VSTUR IXDICUS. 



Javan Hawk, Latham, Gen. Synop. i. p. 34*, nos. 8, 7, "Java" (1781). 



Falco indicus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 264, no. 68 (1788), e.x Lath. 



Poliornis indicus (Gm.), Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 37 (1871). [Antea, p. 140.] 



Hab. Luzon, February, April; Guimaras, March; Cujo, December {Meyer). 



An old female, from Guimaras, with a very broad superciliary stripe, has four distinct dark 

 brown caudal bands. Several Malaccan examples {nms. nostr.) perfectly agree with those from 

 the Philippines. 



CiECUS, Lacepede. 



21. Circus MEL.\j>fOLEUcus. 



Black and White Indian Falcon, Ferm. Ind. Zool. 1st ed. pi. i. (1769]); Lath. Synop. i. 

 p. 81, no. 65, " Ceylon," ex Pennant. 



Falco melanoleucos, Forster, Zool. Ind. p. 12, pi. 2 (1781), ex Lath. 



Circus melanolevcus {Gm.), Eadde, Eeisen Ost-Siberien, ii. p. 116, pi. 2. fig. 1 ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1803, p. 213 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 356 ; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 98. [Antea, p. 117.] 



Circus, sp., Swinhoe, Ibis, 1801, p. 203, no. 12, " Manilla" (1861). 



Circus cyaneus hudsonius, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Circi, p. o,Juv. " LuQon ; " Swinh., Ibis, 

 1863, p. 214; Gurney, /. c. no. 3; Ibis, 1870, p. 444. 



Hab. Philippines {Gurney, Simnhoe, Gevers); Negros] {L. C. Layard). 



The Philippine habitat of this Harrier mainly rests on the testimony of Mr, Swinhoe (Z. c), 

 and on the correct determination of certain immature Philippine examples in the Museums of 

 Norwich and Leyden by Mr. Gurney. 



