222 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



Adult female. Similar to the male^ but larger. Total 

 length 7*2 inches, culmen (from cere to tip) 0-5, wing 4'6, 

 tail 2*75, tarsus 0*87. 



The type of the female is from the island of Samar. 



The preceding table (p. 221) of comparative measurements 

 is a record of the specimens examined, in which the sex and 

 exact locality are mentioned. 



[A pair of the Samar Pigmy Falcon were observed nesting 

 in the charred trunk of a dead tree left standing on a native 

 clearing. They were engaged in rearing their young, whose 

 cries could be heard, but, owing to the rotten condition of 

 the trunk and the great height of the nest from the ground^ 

 it was found impossible to get at them. — J. W.] 



7. PoLiOAETUS iCHTHYAicTUS (Horsf.) ; Sharpc, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. i. p. 452 (1874) ; Steere, List Birds & Mamm. 

 Philippines, p. 8 (1890) ; Bourns & Worcester, Occ. Pap. 

 Minnesota Acad. Sci. i. no. 1, p. 33 (1894). 



There is a fine adult pair of the large Grey-headed Fishing- 

 Eagle from the island of Samar. The species has previously 

 been recorded from Mindoro, Calamianes, Mindanao, and 

 Basilan. 



[This Eagle is generally found frequenting the coast and 

 salt-water lagoons ; but the pair obtained in Samar were 

 met with in a mountainous district miles from the coast, 

 living on the fish caught in the clear waters of a river. — 

 J. W.] 



8. NiNox PHiLipPENsis, Bouap. ; Grant, Ibis, 1896, 

 p. 531. 



An adult male from Leite agrees perfectly with typical 

 examples from Luzon, and differs from birds from Negros 

 and the other central islands . Full particulars will be found 

 in our previous paper, quoted above. 



[Iris bright straw ; bill greenish yellow ; feet straw-yellow. 

 —J. W.] 



9. Oriolus chinensis, Linn. ; Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 532. 

 An adult male of the Chinese Oriole from Samar. 



