230 MANUAL OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"Adult male. Head black, feathers of crest sulphur- white at base, then 

 black, narrowly edged with whitish ; rest of upper- surface with wings 

 light ashy brown,, all the feathers edged with whitish. Tail broadly tipped 

 with white and with two broad whitish bars and part of a third basal one ; 

 throat bluish ash, unmarked ; rest of under surface pale cinnamon, shaded 

 with ash and spotted and banded as in 8. holospilus. Length, 502 ; wing, 

 317; tail, 229; tarsus, 71. Distinguished from S. holospilus by its small 

 size and pale coloring." (Steere.) 



The validity of this species is somewhat doubtful. Bourns and Wor- 

 cester consider that it "was founded on differences due to change of season 

 and to individual variation." Grant thinks "that S. panayensis may fairly 

 be recognized as a distinct form." 



Genus BUTASTUR Hodgson, 1843. 



Bill small, its edge slightly sinuate; wings moderate, primaries cut on 

 inner web ; first primary short ; secondaries much shorter than primaries ; 

 tarsus feathered in front for a short distance, a row of large hexagonal 

 scales in front, rest of tarsus with small hexagonal scales. 



189. BUTASTUR INDICUS (Gmelin). 

 TIC-WEE BUZZARD. 



Falco indicus GMELIN, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 1, 264. 



Butastur indicus SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 297; Hand-List 



(1899), 1, 266; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 278; McGBEOOB and 



WORCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 43. 



Lim-bas', Manila and Lubang; tic-wet, in general; cu-yab', Calayan. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Basilan (Steere Exp., McGregor) ; Batan N. (Edmonds*) ; 

 Bohol (Everett, Steere Exp.) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Cagayan Sulu (M earns) ; 

 Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor)-, Calayan (McGregor)', Cebu (Eve- 

 rett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Cuyo (Meyer) ; Fuga (White- 

 head)', Guimaras (Meyer) ; Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Whitehead, McGregor) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester] ; Mindanao (Steere, 

 Koch d Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Everett, McGregor, 

 Porter); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan (Everett, 

 Whitehead, Platen, Bourns* & Worcester, White) ; Panay (Steere, Steere Exp.. 

 Bourns & Worcester) ; Samar (Bourns d Worcester) ; Sibay (McGregor d Wor- 

 cester) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Sulu (Bourns & Worcester) ; 

 Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester); Verde (McGregor). Ussuri-land; Japan; 

 China to Malay Peninsula ; Celebes. 



"Adult. Above brown, inclining to ashy on head and upper back, and 

 to rufous on lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the latter of which 

 are plainly barred and broadly tipped with pure white; forehead white; 



* Through the interest of Mr. William Edmonds, teacher in the Batanes, a 

 specimen of the tic-wee buzzard from Batan has been sent to the Bureau of Science. 

 We are under obligations to Mr. Otto Sheerer for two live specimens of this 

 species which were caught in Batan. Still another tic-wee buzzard was captured 

 on board the U. S. S. Albatross in the vicinity of Camiguin Island, north of Luzon. 



