877.] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. 821 



(Papag. ii. pp. 718, 719) in recognizing L. apicalis is overcome. 

 Yet a comparison of the type is desirable ; and until made it is best 

 to allow Dr. Finsch's title to stand. Mr. Sharpe has been good 

 enough to compare one of Mr. Everett's examples ($) with the 

 British-Museum example from Mindanao, labelled by Gray L. mela- 

 noptervs, and writes that it agrees'. The British-Museum example 

 labelled L. apicalis, Mr. Sharpe informs me, is somewhat larger, 

 though he "wonders the specimens have been separated." 



7. AsTUR TRIVIRGATUS (1 1). 



[Surigao, c? , May. Iris golden yellow ; orbital skia and cere 

 greenish yellow ; bill black, mandible whitish ; legs dark chrome ; 

 claws black.] 



Mr. J. H. Gurney informs me that this example belongs to true 

 A. trivirgatus, i. e. the small race. 



8. Spilornis holospilxjs (16). 

 [Butuan, S, May. b. Surigao, $, May.] 



9. HaLIASTUR INTERMEDIUS (17). 



[Mouth of Butuan river, $ . Iris brown ; bill, cere black 

 mottled with yellow ; feet pale greenish yellow ; claws black.] 

 In first plumage. 



10. Pernis ptilorhyncha. 



Falco ptilorhynchus. Tern. PI. Col. t. 44. 



[Butuan, $ , May. Iris white ; bill black ; cere mottled with 

 yellow ; feet chrome-yellow j claws black.] 



The only example sent is in immature transition plumage. The 

 entire under surface is tawny rufous, each feather with a bold dark- 

 brown mesial stripe. Above the new feathers are brown, the old 

 brown with broad fulvous or pale rufous margins. Mr. J. H. Gur- 

 ney has been good enough to compare this Butuan individual with 

 a Philippine example in the Norwich Museum, and has expressed 

 his opinion that it is necessary to wait for more specimens before 

 the question of its non-identity with P. ptilorhyncha can be decided. 



11. TlIRIPONAX JAVENSIS (28). 



[Surigao, $ , May. Iris Naples-yellow.] 



12. MuLLERiPicus FULiGiNosus. (Plate LXXXIII.) 



Mulleripicus fnliffinosus, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, 

 XX. p. 534 (December 1, 1877). 



cJ . Slaty smoke-grey. Feathers of the forehead, vertex, occiput, 

 chin, throat, and neck with a terminal white or fulvous-white linear 

 mark. Lores, ear-coverts, and ophthalmic region uniform grey. 

 Feathers covering basal walls of mandible and the cheeks crimson. 



Wing 6-25 inches, tail 5-25, culmen 170, tarsus l-OO. 



' The specimen on which Dr. Finsch founded his title of C. kartlaubi. 



