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wing-coverts tipped with white; the few breast-feathers visible white, 
with broad blackish cross-bars.” J Sharpe.) 
A male was taken on Lubang™Island. Iris brown, bill, cere, and nails 
black ; feet pale yellow. Length, 610; wing, 400; tail, 260; culmen from 
base, 37; tarsus, 98. This species is an inhabitant of deep forest and is 
seldom seen. 
Genus PITHECOPHAGA Grant, 1896. 
Bill deep, greatly compressed, depth of upper mandible twice its width 
at edge of cere; culmen greatly curved for its entire length; nostril in 
a vertical sht near margin of cere; a very full crest of long feathers ; wings 
rounded, rather short; inner webs of primaries slightly narrowed from 
middle to tip; tarsus slightly feathered in front at base ; a row of transverse 
plates in front, sides and back with small hexagonal scales; feet powerful ; 
tail-feathers wide and slightly graduated. 
185. PITHECOPHAGA JEFFERY! Grant. 
MONKEY-EATING EAGLE. 
Pithecophaga jefferyi GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1896), 6, 17; Ibis 
(1897), 214, pl. 5, text figs. 1 to 4; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 90; 
SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 265; McGrecor, Bull. Philippine Mus. 
(1904), 4, 15; Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 297; Mearns, Proc. 
Biol. Soe. Wash. (1905), 18, 73; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 42. 
Pithecophaga jefferi CLEMENS, Condor (1907), 9, 92 (photo). 
Leyte? (Whitehead); Luzon (Ickis); Mindanao (Keller, Clemens, Farrel) ; 
Samar (Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester). 
“Top of head pale whitish buff with dark middles to the feathers, which 
are rather narrow and pointed, especially those on the occiput, which 
form a long full crest ; general color above rich brown, most of the feathers 
with paler margins, especially the quill-feathers and wing-coverts; tail- 
feathers dark brown, the two median pairs with wide dark bands; shafts of 
quills and tail-feathers creamy white; under parts uniform creamy white ; 
thighs and long flank-feathers with reddish brown shaft-stripes. Length, 
about 840; bill, greatest depth measured from base of cere to ridge of 
culmen, 38; from base of cere to tip, 38; wing, 525; tail, 381; tarsus, 
118; middle toe without claw, 68; claw, measured in a straight line from 
base to tip, 37; hind toe without claw, 46; claw, 51.” (G@rant.) 
“Tris dull creamy brown, with an outer ring of brownish red, the two 
colors melting into one another and not sharply defined ; face and base of 
bill dull french-blue, tip of bill black; legs and feet dull yellow; claws 
black.” (Whitehead.) 
Grant’s original description given above is quite sufficient to identify 
this remarkable eagle, and agrees with a specimen before me, but in at 
least two specimens which I have examined there were conspicuous black 
shaft-lines on the feathers of chin and jaw. This may have been due 
