HALIASTUR. 233 
“Common along the seashore. Frequently seen perching on the fish 
pens of the natives, where it secures abundant food.” (Bourns and 
Worcester MS.) 
Genus HALIASTUR Selby, 1840. 
Bill moderate, compressed, with a long overhanging tip; culmen well 
curved, cutting edge slightly sinuate; wings long, extending beyond tip 
of tail; inner webs of primaries abruptly cut; tail nearly square; tarsus 
feathered in front for about half its length, the lower half with large 
transverse plates, its sides and back with variously shaped scales; claws 
strong and well curved. 
191. HALIASTUR INTERMEDIUS Gurney. 
MALAYAN BRAHMINY KITE. 
Haliastur intermedius GuRNEY, Ibis (1865), 28; SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1874), 1, 314; Hand-List (1899), 1, 268; OaTrEs, Cat. Birds’ 
Eggs (1902), 2, 282; McGrecor and WorcesTER, Hand-List (1906), 43. 
La-uin’, Lubang, Manila; ba-nog’, Bohol, Ticao. 
Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Bouwrns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol 
(Steere Hap., McGregor); Bongao (Hverett); Buluan off Mindanao (Mearns) ; 
Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (Murray, 
Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Meyer, 
Steere Exp.); Leyte (Hverett); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, 
Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Neale) ; Maestre de Campo (IceGregor 
& Worcester) ; Malanipa (Murray) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns 
& Worcester, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Murray, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro 
(Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Porter) ; Negros (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, 
Keay); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns € Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns & Worces- 
ter); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, 
McGregor); Siquijor (Steere Exp., Celestino); Sulu (@uillemard, Steere Exp., 
Bourns & Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns & Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Wor- 
cester) ; Ticao (McGregor). Celebes; Malay Peninsula; Greater Sunda Islands; 
Indo-Chinese Provinces. 
Adult—REntire head and neck, chin, throat, and breast white, with 
narrow black shaft-lines; rest of the plumage rich chestnut, the shafts 
blackish, the chestnut most intense on mantle and back; primaries black 
with light rufous bases; axillars and wing-lining chestnut; tail chestnut, 
tipped with gray. Length of male, 470; wing, 410; tail, 210; culmen 
from base, 35; tarsus, 53. 
“Young.—Above deep brown, the interscapulary feathers inclining 
to dull maroon toward their tips, the rest of the feathers of the upper 
surface tipped with rufous, and most of them externally shaded with ashy 
gray; head and neck pale rufous, with buffy white centers and tips to 
the feathers, giving a streaked appearance, as in a young Milvus; fore- 
head, lores, and sides of face white, with narrow black shaft-lines to the 
feathers; ear-coverts slightly washed with brown; chin whitish; rest of 
under surface pale rufous-brown, the shaft-stripes distinct, all the feathers 
