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wing-coverts tipped with white; the few breast-feathers visible white, 

 with broad blackish cross-bars." (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 slit 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 JEFFERYI Grant. 

 MONKEY-EATING EAGLE. 



Pithecophaga jefferyi GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1896), 6, 17; Ibis 



(1897), 214, pi. 5, text figs. 1 to 4; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 90; 



SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 265; MCGREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. 



(1904), 4, 15; Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 297; MEARNS, Proc. 



Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 73; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 



(1906), 42. 

 Pithecophaga jefferi CLEMENS, Condor (1907), 9, 92 (photo). 



Leyte? ( Whitehead ) ; Luzon (Ickis) ; Mindanao (Keller, Clemens, Farrel) ; 

 Samar ( Whit ehead, Bourns d 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." (Grant.) 



"Iris dull creamy brown, with an outer ring of brownish red, the two 

 colors melting into one another and not sharply denned ; 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 



