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Birds of Celebes: Palconidae. 
“Sikep sedang”, Minahassa, Nat. Coll. 
“Dandape”, Great Sangi, iicl. 
“Tagi”, Talaut Islands, iid. 
For synonymy and further references see Salvador! 7, 
Figures and descriptions. Temminck c 7 ; Temm. & Sclil. d 7 ; Schlegel d III, d 2; Sharpe 
1] Hume & Davison d; Salvador! 7; Oates 11\ Taczanowsk! 25] Blanford 
31] Meyer XXXV, etc. 
Adult. Above dark grey-brown, shafts blackish, bases of the feathers drab; head above and 
nape blacker, with rufous edges; Aving- coverts hazel-brown, a few whitish terminal 
spots thereon; secondaries grey-brown, tips whitish, primaries and primary 
coverts blacker, the unexposed parts rufous-hazel, crossed with narrow partially ob- 
literated bars; upper tail-coverts broadly tipped and barred Avith white ; tail crossed 
with about four blackish bands, tip Avhitish; cheeks and ear-coverts drab, with 
black shaft-lines, submalar stripe and one down the middle of the throat blackish; 
chin and throat laterally white; under parts white, crossed with brace-shaped 
bars of ruf ous-broAATi , chest nearly uniform rufous-broAvn; under tail-coverts buff- 
white; under wing-coverts buff-Avhite, with sparing hastate spots of rufous; wing- 
below, where it rests upon the body, white, the bars nearly obliterated, distal ends of 
remiges blackish [(^ ad. Tomohon, N. Celebes, 9. IX. 94: P. & F. Sarasin. 
“Iris golden yellow; bill chrome-yellow at base, rest black; cere chrome; legs 
dull chrome-yellow; claws black” (Everett 13). 
Female. Similar to the male, but larger. 
Young. Differs from the adult in having the under parts white, streaked with rufous-brown 
(not barred); the dark stripe down the middle of the throat much reduced or absent; 
cheeks and ear-coverts blackish brown (not drab); head above white, saturated with 
rufous on occiput and nape, and streaked Avith blackish brown; feathers of the upper 
parts with pale terminal edges, Avhite on some of the wing-coverts ((^f juv. Purukan, 
X. Cel., 22. XL 94: P. & F. Sarasin). 
“Iris dark yelloAv; bill black,, cere yellow; legs and feet yellow” (P. & F. S.). 
Measurements (extremes from small male to large female). Wing 306 — 345 mm; tail 190 — 213; 
tarsus 58 — 62. 
Eggs. Not positively knoAAUi. 
Distribution. Japan, Ussuriland (25), China, Formosa, Cochin China, Tenasserim, Malacca, 
the Philippines, including Palawan (4, 15, 16), Balabac (29) and Sooloo (13), Borneo, 
Labuan, Java, Celebes — Xorthern Peninsula (Bosenberg, Duivenbode, Biedel 
d 4, Guillemard 13, etc.), Siao (Hoedt 7 4), Great Sangi (Bosenberg, Hoedt d 4, 
Platen 14, Xat. Coll.), Talaut Islands — Salibabu and Karkellang (Nat. Coll.), 
Ternate, Hahnahera, Morty, SalaAvatti, Waigiou (cf. Salvador! 7, Oates 11, Kelham 
8, W. Blasius 14, Kutter 10). 
Count Salvador! includes Burmah (Hume) in his list of localities, but only 
Tenasserim is noted for it in Mr. Oates’ and Mr. Blanford’s more recent works. 
It is possible to show that this species occurs in the East India Archi- 
pelago only as a migrant from China, Ussuriland and Japan during the N. E. 
monsoon, the Avinter in the latter countries. Such Mr. Whitehead considered it 
undoubtedly to be in Borneo (^i7j, and Mr. Everett ( 18 ) states that “it appears 
in Labuan and Northern Borneo in September and remains through the winter. 
It is quite the most abundant of the migratory as Haliastur intermedins is of the 
