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Birds of Celebes: Falcouidae. 
Three specimens in the Dresden Museum from Celebes — all of them at the 
end of the moult and one in the Sarasin Collection are in this plumage. 
Female. Like the male; a little larger perhaps. 
Young. Similar to the adult, hut the head above brown, with blackish brown shaft-streaks, 
the wing-coverts mottled with whitish, the grey-brown breast marked to some extent 
with whitish transverse spots (cf, 11. Dec. 1894, Macassar: P. & F. Sarasin. 
A young specimen of three months’ age described by Mr. Oates (3) had the 
bars on the tail very clearly defined. 
ments. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
cere 
a. (6738) $, S. Celebes (Platen) 
305 
155 
63 
21 
5. (C 11205) 9, S. Celebes, 6. HI. 78 (Platen) .... 
290 
162 
66 
20.5 
c. (Sarasin Coll.) 9, Macassar, 14. YH. 95 (P. & F. S.) 
285 
150 
65 
20 
d. (C 11204) S. Celebes, 8. H. 78 (Platen) .... 
285 
150 
65 
20 
e. (Sarasin Coll.) juv.. Macassar, 1 1 . XH. 94 (P. & F. S.) 
276 
146 
63 
19 
Eggs. 2; white, very smooth and compact; seen against the light — clear dark green. 
Size 46 x37 mm ca. (Oates 7). 
Nest. Of small sticks, situated in a tree. 
Breeding season in Burmah. March (7). 
Distribution. Pegu (Oates etc. e 2, e 4, 4, 7); Tenasserim (Davison 2); Siam (Gurney ei); 
Java (Reinwardt 5 7); Timor (S. Muller 5 7); ? Borneo (5 7, e 2, 6)\ South Celebes, 
— Macassar (S. Muller 5 7, AVallace 7, Meyer, Platen 5, etc.); Pare-Pare 
(Weber 75); Luwu, Gulf of Boni (Weber 75); ? Moluccas (Frankf. Mus. 8). 
Mr. Everett declines to admit this species into his list of the birds of Borneo 
for want of sufficient evidence, nor have we seen any reference to actual specimens 
from that island. If the locality he correctly indicated, there is a specimen in the 
Frankfurt a. M. Museum from the Moluccas — apparently the only one as yet recorded 
east of Celebes. For the present it should he treated as erroneous; no collector is 
mentioned. 
There is some reason to suspect that this Hawk will prove to be a partially 
migratory sjoecies in the East Indian Archipelago. In lower Burmah it is abundant, 
and breeds there, laying 2 eggs in March. In Java a note of Mr. de Bocarme 
states that it is generally seen in December and January and appears not to 
nest in that island. It is fairly abundant in marshes and damp meadows; preys 
upon frogs, grasshoppers and small birds, also snakes and crabs (h i, 4). One 
specimen from Java in the Leyden Museum is dated May. Five specimens 
reported upon by Prof. W. Blasius (5) and another one in the Dresden Museum 
were shot by Dr. Platen in February, March and Aj)iil 1878; and one was 
obtained near Macassar by Meyer in October, 1870). 
Prof. Weber obtained four in the southern Peninsula, one in October, one 
in February, and the other two apparently j)i’ior to October (10). 
1) This specimen, which is in the Berlin Museum, was erroneously entered in the Catalogue there as 
having come from Manado, although it is labelled “Macassar, Oct. 1871”. This .mistake has led to the 
locality Manado being recorded for the species in Ibis 1879, 56, which should now be cancelled and Macassar 
substituted in its place. 
