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"Young. Above brown, with rufous edgings to the feathers, a little 

 broader on the upper tail-coverts, the sides of the neck washed with rufous, 

 the nape mottled with white; crown blackish, an ill-defined eyebrow and 

 fore part of the cheeks white, narrowly lined with blackish brown; the 

 ear-coverts brown, slightly washed with dull rufous; throat buffy white, 

 with a moustachial line on each side and a median streak of brown; rest < 

 of under surface buffy white, the chest broadly streaked and the breast 

 and flanks barred with pale rufous ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing- 

 coverts clear buff, the lowest ones spotted with blackish ; quills dark brown, 

 slightly tipped with whitish, very indistinctly barred above with darker 

 brown, underneath buffy white at the base of the inner web, indistinctly 

 barred with dark brown, visible only on the inner webs; tail ashy brown, 

 whitish at tip, crossed with five bars of darker brown, the under surface 

 whitish ashy, the cross-bars more distinct, except on the outer web, where 

 they are almost obsolete." (Sharpe.) 



"Met with only in Mindanao, where it is not at all common." (Bourns 

 and Worcester MS. ) 



Male specimen from Cagayancillo : Bill black, bluish at base ; iris dark 

 brown; cere and legs buffy yellow j nails black. Length, 285; wing, 190; 

 tail, 1*31 ; culmen from base, 20 ; tarsus, 41. 



178. ASTUR CUCULOIDES (Temminck). 

 CUCKOO GOSHAWK. 



Falco cuculoides TEMMINCK, PI. Col. (1823), 1, pis. 110, 129. 



Astur cuculoides SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 115, pi. 4, fig. 2; 

 Hand-List (1899), 1, 250; MCGREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 

 15; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906) 41. 



Cagayancillo (McGregor). China; in winter to the Malay Archipelago. 



"Adult. Above light slaty gray, the margins to the feathers rather 

 darker, the ear-coverts and sides of neck a little paler than the upper 

 surface; lores slightly whitish; under surface of body very pale vinous, 

 somewhat tinged with ashy on sides of breast and throat, the latter being 

 otherwise whitish; lower flanks, abdomen, under tail-coverts, and thighs 

 white; the latter indistinctly dusted with ashy; under wing-coverts and 

 axillars pure white ; upper wing-coverts slaty gray like back ; quills black- 

 ish, shaded above with slaty gray, lower surface of primaries black, all the 

 quills white at base of inner web, more extended on the secondaries, which 

 are ashy gray toward the tips ; tail deep slaty gray, nearly uniform above, 

 grayish ash-color below, inclining to white near base of feathers and 

 crossed with five bands of darker brown, the subterminal one broadest. 

 Cere yellow ; bill horn-brown ; feet yellow, claws black ; iris dark brown. 

 Length; 310; culmen, 18; wing, 203; tail, 127; tarsus, 51." (Sharpe.) 



A male specimen from Cagayancillo measures : Length, 300 ; wing, 

 190; tail, 136; culmen from base, 20; tarsus, 40. Iris very dark brown; 

 bill black, greenish at base; cere orange; feet light orange; nails black. 



