620 ON THE OENITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES, [1878. 



Orn. Misc. On Poliohierax insignis. By Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.E.S. 



iii. p. 169. ["From Rowley's ' Ornithological Miscellany,' vol. iii. pt. 14, May 1878, Plate CIII. in orig.] 



Poliohierax insignis. 



Polihierax insignis, Walden, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 627 [antea, p. 113] ; Ibis, 1872, pp. 467* & 

 471 \_antea, p. 233]. 



Lithofalco feildeni, Hume, Pr. A. S. B. 1872, pp. 70 & 71. 



Poliohierax insignis, Walden, Sharpe, Cat. Accijjitres, Brit. Mus. 1874, p. 370, 



Polihierax feildeni, Hume, Str. F. 1875, pp. 14, 19, & 269. 



Polihierax insignis, Walden, Sclater, Str. F. 1875, p. 417. 



Poliohierax insignis, Walden, Blyth, Birds of Burma, 1875, p. 59. no. 14. 



The subject of the accompanying Plate was first discovered by my friend the late Colonel 

 Lloyd, Deputy Commissioner at Tonghoo, in British Burma. Examples of both sexes were sent 

 by him to me in the month of August 1871. As I w^as unfortunately prevented from exhibiting 

 them myself at the next scientific meeting of the Zoological Society, on the 7th of November, 

 I entrusted them to Mr. Sclater, with a short description and a proposed title — the designation 

 adopted above. Mr. Sclater exhibited the specimens, read my notes on them, and before the 

 meeting announced the title I proposed. In due course these facts Avere recorded in the 

 ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society (/. c). 

 Cm. Misc. In the month of May 1872 Mr. Hume, having received specimens of the same bird from 



ui. p. 170. Captain Feilden, described tjiem as belonging to an unknown species, and bestowed the title of 

 Lithofalco feildeni. 



To Captain Feilden we are indebted for valuable remarks on the various phases of plumage 

 this Falcon assumes, and for a full description of its habits (I. c). 



Mr. Gates has also added to our knowledge of the species. 



From a zoo-geographical point of view, the occurrence of this bird in Burma is of the 

 highest interest. It belongs to a genus the type and only other member of which occurs in 

 Africa, P. semitorq^uatus (Smith). 



At present, P. insignis is only known as an inhabitant of Northern British Burma. 



P.Z.S.1878, Contrilutions to the Ornithology of the Philippines — No. X. On the Collection made by Mr. A.H. 



p. 708. Everett in the Island of Bohol. By Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S., President of the 



Society. [From the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,' read June 18,18781.] 



The island of Bohol lies between Leyte and Zebu, and is situated about seventy miles N.W. of 



Mindanao. It has a length of about forty miles and a breadth of thirty miles. After leaving 



Leyte, Mr. Everett stopped for a week at Talibon, on the north coast of the island, and then left 



* In the British-Museum Catalogue (vol. i. Accijoitres), page 200 is quoted in error, 

 t [Published October 1, 1878.— Ed.] 



