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Birds of Celebes: Faleonidae. 
Ind. B. in 1895, 345; (11) Grant, Ibis 1895, 438; (12) Hartert, JSTov. Zool. 
1896, 575. 
Figures and descriptions. G. S. a T, Jarcline & Selby b I\ Jerdon d J; Sclilegel f V, 
Gurney f 2\ Sharpe 1; Hume f 6, .3; Legge 2, Blanford 10. 
Adult. Above blacldsh brown, 6 or 7 narrow indistinct bars on tail; occipital crest about 
60 mm long; chin, throat and hreast white, passing into fei'ruginous on the 
remaining irnder parts, which, together with the sides of the breast, are marked 
with dark shaft-streaks; tail helow greyish; quills below wlhto, greyer towards 
tip; under wing-coverts with the greater series tipped with white and edged 
with fulvous. 
Measurements. Wing Tail Tarsus Culmen from cere 
Cf 360—394 208—228 68.5—76 25.5—28 
Q 432—444 254—317 76 30.5 (from Legge 2). 
Immature. Crown and sides of head and neck tawny-brown, becoming more fulvous on 
neck; the bases of the feathers white (producing a mottled appearance on the crown 
in wliich the tawny-brown feathers of a more advanced stage of dress are sprouting); 
short occipital crest (1.6 in.) brown as head; upper parts Prout’s Brown, beco- 
ming drab-colour mixed with whitish on the greater wing- and upper tail-coverts; 
secondaries and the three inmost primaries tipped vdth whitish; tail brown as back, 
crossed with live narrow equidistant bars of black of fairly equal width and separated 
hy spaces of about 25 mm; all under parts, including legs, pure white; the flanks 
and outer side of the thighs with some feathers of brownish intennixed. Wing 
362 mm; tail 230 mm; tarsus 71 mm; middle toe 53 mm. Celebes; v. Muschenbr. 
Nr. 6671). 
Distribution. Himalayas (Sparre a I; Inglis 2, etc.]; India (Jerdon d 1, Tickell 2); 
Ceylon (Bligh, Legge 2); Malacca and Singapore (Hume 3); Sumatra (Hartert f 10, 
Modigliani 8); Java (Gurney /” 2); Borneo (AV allace /" 3; Whitehead, Fischer, 
5, 6’); Philippines, Luzon (Gevers f 1, f 5, Whitehead 11); Mindanao, Panay, Ma- 
rinduque (Stcore 7); Celebes (Faber f 8, f 9, van Musschenbroek in Mus. Dresd.); 
? Batcbian (Norwich Mus. d 2, d 3)] Satonda, Lesser Sunda Is. (Doherty 12). 
'Fhe first mention of the occurrence of this species in Celebes was made 
by Prof. Peichenow in reference to a specimen brought from that island by 
V. Faber, and later, in answer to a communication from Prof. W. Blasius, Dr. 
Ileichenow confirmed his first note (f9). A second specimen in the Dresden 
Museum, labelled Manado by van Musschenbroek, is in immature plumage, 
and corresponds fairly well with one described by Hume, Str. F. IX, 274. AA^e 
have described it above. 
Probably because the immature plumage of this sjiecies remained for a long 
time unknoAvn, there has been much misconception touching the specimen in 
the Leyden Museum from Luzon referred by Schlegcl to this spiecies. Gur- 
ney (f 2) included this specimen under his Spizaetus philippinensis, overlooking 
the much longer tarsi and tail of that species; and other authorities have fol- 
lowed him. Consequently the Philippine Islands have been generally struck 
out of the range of this sjJecies. There is no reason to doubt the correctness of 
SchlegePs identification of the specimen from the Pbilippines, and in the 
