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Authentic Philippine individuals of this Harrier are contained in the Norwich 

 Museum {fide Gurney, I. c). It also occurs in the Malay peninsula. 



23. ClECUS ^EUGINOSUS. 



Falco teruginosiis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 130, no. 29 (1766). 



A skin of a young female ohtained in one of the Philippine Islands by the late Mr. 

 Hugh Cuming, and now in the British Museum, is our only warrant for admitting the 

 Marsh-Harrier as an inhabitant of the Archipelago. 



STRIGID^. 



SUKNIN^. 



NiNOX, Hodgson. 



24. * NiNOX PHILIPPENSIS. (PI. XXV. fig. 1.) 



Nbiox philippensis, Bp. Compt. Rend. xii. p. 655 (1855). 



Noctua hirsuta philippensis, Sclilegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Striges, p. 26, "Philippines" (1862). 



Noctua philippensis, Solilegel, Neder. Tijdschr. Dlerk. 1866, p. 183. 



Athene philippensis, Schlegel, Wallace, Ibis, 1868, p. 22. 



Hab. Luzon, January {Meyer). 



A very distinct form. Each of the major wing-coverts with a bold white drop towards 

 the end of the outer web. Rectrices traversed by six narrow ochreous bands. The 

 cheek -feathers rigid, decomposed, and considerably developed, extending posteriorly 

 sufficiently to cover the ears. 



Longitudo 

 alse. caudae. 



6 6-37. 3-62. Luzon. 



6 5-25. 3-62. Luzon. 



BUBONIN^. 



PsEUDOPTrNX, Kaup. 



25. * PSEUDOPTYNX PHILIPPINENSIS. (PI. XXV. fig. 2.) 



Pseudoptynx philippinensis, Kaup, Tr. Zool. Soc. iv. p. 2J4, "Philippines" (1859) ; Schlegel, Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Oti, p. 14. ; Mr. G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 456. 

 Bubo philippensis, Schlegel, De Dierentuin, pt. i. p. 10, fig. — . 

 Syrnium philippense, G. R. Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Accipitres, p. 105, "Philippine Islands" 



(1848). 

 Otus philippensis, G. R. Gray, Gray & Mitch. Genera, i. p. 40, no. II. 



Hab. Philippines {Cuming). 



An example of this rare Owl, contained in the Leyden Museum, is said to have been 



