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Spilomis panayensis Steere.* 



The Panay serpent-eagle is fairly abundant and is well known to the natives 

 as the "si-cub." Specimens were obtained at Sevilla and at Guindulman. 



Butastur indicus (Gin.)- 



Butastur indicus Tweeddale, Pi-oc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 709. 

 Collected by Everett in northern Bohol; not seen by us. 



Haliaetus leucogaster (Gm.).* 



The white-bellied fish-eagle was often seen on the coast; one specimen was 

 killed on a fish-corral at Guindulman. 



Haliastur intermedius Gurney. 



H alias tur intermedius Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 709; Steeee, List 

 Philip. Bds. (1890), 7. 



The "ba-nog" is common in Bohol. 



Elanus hypoleucus Gould.* 



A single specimen of this kite was obtained at Guindulman. Irides, light 

 yellow; bill, black; cere, waxy-yellow; legs and feet, bright chrone-yellow; claws, 

 black. 



Microhierax erythrogenys (Vigors).* 



One male specimen from Guindulman, June 7. Wing, 4.4 inches. As the inner 

 webs of the primaries are barred with white this specimen can not be referred 

 to M. meridionalis Grant, which has the inner webs of the primaries uniform 

 black in both sexes, although the latter species is the one to be expected in Bohol. 



Otus boholensis new species.* 



Type. — 5> No. 11500, Bureau of Science Collection; Sevilla, Island of Bohol, 

 P. I.; March 31, 1906; Celestino and Canton, collectors. 



Description of type. — Crown, nape, and interscapular area, conspicuously 

 blackish, the feathers sparingly vermiculated and notched with sandy buff; basal 

 portion of a few feathers sandy buff forming a narrow and hidden nuchal 

 band; forehead, whitish, the whitish marking continued as a wide band over each 

 eye to tips of ear tufts on inner webs, outer webs, blackish spotted with fulvous, 

 these white bands more or less broken by fine vermiculations of dark brown ; 

 loral plumes, whitish with blackish tips ; ear-coverts, grayish shaded with fulvous 

 and narrowly barred with dark brown,, the hinder ear-coverts tipped with black 

 forming a short band; side of neck, whitish with fine blackish cross lines and wide 

 blackish tips to the feathers ; behind ear-coverts an imperfect ruff of whitish 

 feathers with wide terminal or subterminal black bars ; chin, whitish ; feathers 

 of throat somewhat modified in continuation of the ruff; breast, sides, and 

 abdomen, rufescent-cinnamon with fine vermiculations and irregular shaped 

 median stripes of blackish-brown, each feather . with one or two roundish spots 

 of light buff on each web; under tail-coverts, light, sandy buff with a few wavy 

 blackish lines near their tips; legs, sandy buff crossed with distinct, wavy, blackish 

 lines; feathering of tarsi extending nearly to basal joints of toes; primaries, dark 

 brown, the outer webs with large, clear and distinct spots of sandy buff, 6 in num- 

 ber on short first primary, and corresponding faint bars on inner webs; second- 

 aries, dark brown with sandy buff bars which are somewhat obscured by darker 

 vermiculations; the primary coverts resemble the secondaries and the first quill 

 of alula is marked like the primaries; secondary coverts, scapulars and back, 

 vermiculated with sandy buff, light buff, and blackish-brown and marked with 

 large, irregular, blackish-brown spots : under wing-coverts, nearly white, inner 

 ones uniform, the outer buff mottled with blackish ; edge of wing, white ; tail, dark 



