105 



Wing ad. 480 mm. ; above dusky brown ; 

 below dirty white ; chest greyish ; tail 

 with 6 indistinct transverse bands. 



Gen. XLVI. PITHECOPHAGA Ogilvie Grant (1896). 

 Type by orig. desig. P. jefferyi Ogilvie Grant. 



Length about 33 in. ; bill deep, much compressed, 

 ridge of culmen much curved ; nostrils a vertical 

 slit ; lores and cheeks covered with bristles only ; 

 head with crest of long lanceolate feathers ; feet 

 powerful ; tarsi mostly naked, with a row of large 

 scutes down front ; wings short and rounded ; 

 tail very long. 



180. Pithecophaga jefferyi Ogilvie Grant, Bull. 

 B.O.C., vi., p. xvii. (Dec. 30, 1896) ; id., 

 Ibis, 1897, p. 214, pi. V. \_Samar, Philipp. 

 Is.] 

 Philippine Monkey-Eagle. 



Wing ad. 520 ; tail 380 mm. ; above rich 

 brown, with paler margins to the feathers, 

 ' especially on head, where they are whitish 

 buff ; tail dark brown with about 4 darker 

 bands ; below creamy white, the thighs 

 and fiank feathers with reddish brown 

 shaft stripes. 



Philippine 

 Islands. 

 (Samar and 

 Mindanao). 



SUB. FAM. IV; GYPAETIN.E. 



Gen. XLVII. GYPAETUS Storr (1784). 

 Type by monotypy G. grandis Storr. 



Size large, length about 41 in. ; nostrils hidden 

 by stiff bristles ; chin with a long tuft of black 

 bristles ; tarsus more or less feathered. 



