SPILORNIS. 229 



"Young. Above brown, the feathers tipped with pale rufous, the white 

 bases very conspicuous especially on the wing-coverts, which appear lighter 

 than the back; head, which is largely crested, and hincl neck rufous, the 

 feathers buffy white at the base ; with a chestnut-brown subterminal spot ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of face uniform dark brown; throat white; rest of 

 under surface of body fulvous washed with rufous, more especially on the 

 breast-feathers, which have dark brown shafts ; under wing-coverts fulvous, 

 washed with tawny rufous; primaries dark brown, secondaries rather 

 lighter like the back, and tipped with buffy white, all the quills white at 

 base f inner web, and barred with darker brown, showing more plainly 

 underneath, as the interspaces are whitish ashy; tail brown, washed with 

 rufous near the base, and slightly tipped with fulvous, crossed with four 

 or five bars of dark brown, the basal ones indistinct and more or less dis- 

 solved into mottlings." (Sharpe.) 



"From Cape Engano we have received an immature female, which has 

 the head and upper mantle whitish buff, with brown shaft-spots ; there is 

 the beginning of a short deep black superciliary band extending above 

 the eye, while a few feathers of a more adult plumage are begin- 

 ning to make their appearance on the occiput; these are brownish red, 

 with a white subterminal black tip. (The appearance of this black eye- 

 brow-stripe is very puzzling, as it does not appear in the adult plumage; 

 it may be part of an intermediate plumage or fade with age and wear to 

 the dark brown of the adult. ) General color above brown, with irregular, 

 ill-defined reddish white spots on either web ; tail dark brown with two 

 wide brownish white bands across .the terminal half; chin and throat 

 whitish buff. Sides of the head and under parts pale buff, with brownish 

 red shaft-stripes, widest on the terminal half; thighs buff, with wide 

 chestnut middles, constricted at intervals, so as to form ill-defined buff 

 spots down the sides of the feathers, one or two half grown adult feathers 

 on the left thigh. Wing, 386 ; tail, 272 ; tarsus, 86. 



"Although somewhat peculiar in plumage and large in size, I have no 

 hesitation in referring this specimen to 8. holospilus, and Mr. Whitehead 

 shares the same opinion." (Grant.) 



188. SPILORNIS PANAYENSIS Steere. 

 PANAY SERPENT EAGLE, 



Spilornis panayensis STEERE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 7; 

 GRANT, Ibis (1896), 527; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 93; SHARPE, Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 266; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 42. 



Spilornis holospilus BOURNS and WORCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. 

 Papers (1894), 1, 44 (part). 



Si-cub', Bohol. 



Bohol (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate ( Bourns d Worcester, 

 McGregor); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay) ; Panay (Steere 

 Exp.) ; Romblon (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester, 

 McGregor); Tablas (Bourns d Worcester, Celestino). 



