234 * MANUAL OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



with central streaks of buffy white, the chest-feathers darker, and washed 

 with brown on both margins, thighs and under tail-coverts inclining to 

 maroon ; under wing-coverts and axillars clear brown, tipped with rufous 

 or maroon, and centered with black shaft-streaks." (Sharpe.) 



"Extremely common. Frequently abundant about shipping in the 

 harbors, where it feeds on refuse thrown overboard from the ships. 

 Often seen feeding over surface of fresh-water streams as well. Not in- 

 frequently met with hawking over open fields at some distance inland." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



"An egg of the Malayan brahminy kite taken in Borneo is of an 

 elongated elliptical form and plain white. Another, taken in the Philip- 

 pine Islands, is white, minutely speckled all over with dark brown. 

 Neither specimen shows any trace of gloss. They measure respectively : 

 49.5 by 35.5; 49.5 by 40.6." (Oates.) 



The second egg mentioned above was taken in Siquijor by the Steere 

 Expedition. 



Genus ELANUS Savigny, 1809. 



Bill moderate, edge gently sinuate; culmen strongly curved; wings 

 long, extending beyond tip of tail ; primaries not cut on inner webs ; tail 

 slightly forked; tarsus feathered in front for half its length, remainder 

 of its surface covered with minute roundish scales. 



192. ELANUS HYPOLEUCUS Gould. 

 PHILIPPINE BLACK- WINGED KITE. 



Elanus hypoleucus GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1859), 127; SHARPE, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 338; Hand-List (1899), 1, 269; GATES, Cat. 

 Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 291 pi. 13, figs. 3; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, 

 Hand-List (1906), 44. 



Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Everett); Bohol (McGregor)-, Bongao (Eve- 

 rett) ; Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; Luzon (Jagor, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor); 

 Mindanao (Everett, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, 

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

 Samar (Whitehead) ; Sibuyan (McGregor); Sulu (Burbidge, Bourns & Worces- 

 ter) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). Celebes; Greater Sunda Islands. 



Adult. Above pearl-gray, paler on head and fading to pure white 

 above eyes, on forehead, and sides of neck ; lores and a narrow line above 

 eye black; entire lower parts including under surface of wings and tail 

 white; median and lesser coverts black but a few of the inner lesser 

 coverts white; a few small black feathers near edge of wing; primaries 

 and secondaries tipped with white and largely white on inner webs, 

 primary-shafts black; tail-feathers white, except central pair which are 

 gray above. 



