19,6 McGregor: Philippine Birds, IV 699 
A cochero by the name of Mamerto Peralta, living in the coconut grove near 
the College of Agriculture, bought one of the claws which he refused to sell. 
No one seems to know the common name of this bird, and they simply call 
it an eagle. A student of the College of Agriculture who saw this claw 
says it must be the same species of bird as that which attacked and killed a 
Negrito in Zambales while protecting her young one. The young of this 
bird is at present in the possession of a man in San Marcelino, Zambales, 
who has it for exhibition purposes. 
I offer the foregoing account without excessive confidence in 
either the identity of the species or the accuracy of the state- 
ments concerning the struggle of the man with the bird. This 
species may be expected to occur in the forests near Mount 
Maquiling as it was definitely recorded by me from the moun- 
tains east of Mount Maquiling some years ago, the record being 
based upon the head, a foot, and a wing of the specimen killed by 
Mr. Harry M. Ickis. The head and foot of the Ickis specimen 
are the ones used by Shufeldt in his monograph on the oste- 
ology of this eagle. 
Baza magnirostris Gray. 
The large-billed baza is one of the rare endemic Philippine 
hawks. The only specimen that I have seen was collected by 
Andres Celestino on Agusan River, in northern Mindanao, on 
December 17, 1909. 7 The specimen is a female, No. 12940 of 
the Bureau of Science collection. Mr. J. H. Riley has confirmed 
my identification. 
Pseudoptynx philipp ensis Kaup. Plate 1, figs. 2 and 3. 
On May 2, 1921, we received a live owl at the Bureau of 
Science. Under the date April 30 Mr. Dean C. Worcester, of 
Cebu, wrote that he had received this owl from Catbalogan, 
Samar. The bird appears to be Pseudoptynx philipp ensis, but 
in its present condition is rather too lively for a close com- 
parison with our museum specimen from Benguet Province. 
This bird eats rats, guinea pigs, and beef with gusto, and appears 
to be perfectly healthy. It was still living in December, 1921. 
No species of this genus has been recorded from either Samar 
or Leyte. 
Chastura picina Tweeddale. Text fig. 3. 
Chsetura picina Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1878) 944, pi. 
59; Grant, Ibis VII 3 (1897) 242. 
Meamsia picina Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 50 s (1911) 686. 
7 Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 5 (1910) 197. 
