PERNIS. ZED 
Male from Bantayan.—Length, 330; wing, 300; tail, 143; culmen from 
base, 25; tarsus, 36. 
Female from Manila.—Bill and nails black; iris carmine; cere, gape, 
and legs chrome-yellow. Length, 355; wing, 300; tail, 138; culmen 
‘from base, 25; tarsus, 34. 
An immature female from Bohol is like the adult but the wing-feathers, 
including the black coverts, are widely tipped with white, and the feathers 
of crown and nape are edged with white and a little buff giving the head a 
streaked appearance. Iris light yellow; bill and nails black; cere waxy 
yellow; feet bright chrome-yellow. 
“Female, not quite adult (type).—Above ashy gray, scapulars and 
quills plainly tipped with white, and washed with rusty brown, especially 
on the interscapular region; crown white, the hinder part inclining to 
ashy gray, plainly streaked with rusty brown; wing ashy gray, primaries 
darker, all the quills, as well as the coverts tipped with white, the lesser 
and median coverts black, forming a conspicuous shoulder patch; tail 
white, shaded with ashy toward the tip, the two center feathers entirely 
ashy gray; under surface of body entirely white, including the under 
wing-coverts; under surface of quills deep ashy gray toward the tip, 
whitish at base. Cere yellow; bill black; feet yellow; iris red. Length, 
368; culmen, 28; wing, 305; tail, 157; tarsus, 38.” (Sharpe.) 
“Quite abundant about the open fields, but difficult to shoot. Iris 
bright red; legs and feet yellow; nails black; bill black, except cere and 
gape which are bright yellow.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
“The sole egg of the Philippine black-winged kite in the collection is 
a blunt oval, smooth, and devoid of gloss. It is white, thickly smeared 
especially at the large end, with two shades of brown. It measures: 
41.9 by 31.7 mm.” (Oates.) 
The egg described above was collected by Everett in Mindoro, Decem- 
ber 14. 
Genus PERNIS Cuvier, 1817. 
Bill small, elongate, the cutting edge regular or slightly sinuate ; nostril 
a narrow slit; side of head covered with short close-set feathers ; no bristles 
nor hairs about base of bill; wings long, primaries obliquely cut on inner 
webs; tail composed of long wide feathers; tarsus feathered in front for 
its upper half, its remaining surface covered with small scales. 
193. PERNIS PTILORHYNCUS (Temminck). 
CRESTED HONEY BUZZARD. 
Falco ptilorhyncus TEMMINCK, PI. Col. livr. 8 (1821), 1, 44. ; 
Pernis ptilonorhynchus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 347; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 271; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 293, pl. 14, fig. 
4; McGregor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 44, 
Pernis cristatus BLANFoRD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 3, 406 (part), 
fig. 98 (head); Grant, Ibis (1897), 213. 
