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buff or creamy white, with which the tail is conspicuously tipped, the light bars, seven in number, on the 
centre feathers, broader and coalescing on the remainder ; crown of head like the back, thickly spotted 
with white, the spots arranged in pairs ; feathers on the hind neck with concealed bases of tawny buff; 
the mantle somewhat more uniform brown ; sides of face chestnut, deeper about the eyes and on the ear- 
coverts, which are whiter posteriorly ; ruff dark chocolate-brown, barred across with rufous ; chin rufous, 
followed by a broad white patch, narrowly barred with black ; remainder of under surface of body tawny 
rufous, narrowly barred across with blackish brown, including the thighs and under tail-coverts ; fore 
neck with broad bands of white and chocolate-brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries like the breast; 
quills below dusky brown, barred with yellowish buff, these bars broader towards the base of the inner 
web. Total length 17’5 inches, culmen P35, wing 13, tail 7’5, tarsus 2'3. 
Its nearest ally is Syrnium sinense, but it is easily distinguished from that species by its rufescent 
under surface, with the absence of white bars. 
The loud “ hoo, hoo,” of this tine Owl first attracted my attention, I remember, one evening when 
returning to the shed under which we lived, being quite startled by the loudness of its note. I several 
times saw these birds during the day in the swamps, but they had probably been disturbed from the 
forests close at hand. On the mountain inland I heard several. 
Orbit pink ; eye and bill black. 
17. Scops everetti, Twedd. f* 
18. Ninox borneensis (Bp.). *. 
19. Thriponax hargitti, Sharpe, f. 
20. Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus, 
Sharpe, f* 
21. Tiga everetti, Tweedd. j-. 
22. Mulleripicus pulverulentus (Temm.). M. 
23. Eurystomus or te -nttai.tr (L.). M., P. 
24. Alcedo bengalensis, Gm. *. 
25. Alcedo asiatica, Swain. M. 
26. Pelargopsis gotjldi, Sharpe. P. 
27. Ceyx rueidorsa, Stricld. M. 
28. Halcyon pileata (Bodd.). *. 
29. Halcyon coromanda (Lath.). M., P. 
30. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.). M., P. 
44. Etjdynamis mindanensis (L.). P. 
The Palawan Cuckoo passes all day in the tops of the high jungle-trees (often quite out of shot), 
seldom going amongst the outside branches, but preferring to hop about well under shelter from sun and 
Hawks. This bird is very tenacious of life and requires a severe wound to bring it down. I never heard 
or shot an adult bird after the middle of August, when perhaps it migrates to Borneo and other islands, as 
most of the birds in Labuan are seen after September during the N.E. monsoon. (See above, pp. 145, 
146.) 
31. Anthracoceros lemprieri, Sharpe, f- 
32. Centura gigantea (V. Hasselt). M. 
33. Collocalia troglodytes, Wallace. P. 
34. Collocalia euciphaga, Thunb. M., P. 
35. Batrachostomus corntttus (Temm.). M. 
36. Caprimulgus macrurus (Horsf.). M. 
37. Caprimulgus manillensis, G. B. Gray. P. 
38. Cuculus sonnerati, Lath. *. 
39. Cuculus canoroides (L.). *. 
40. CoCOMANTIS MERULINUS (Scop.). M., P. 
41. Hierococcyx strenuus, Gould. *. 
42. Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus, Horsf. 
M. 
43. SuRNICULUS LUGUBRIS (Horsf.). M. 
45. Dryococcyx hareingtoni, Sharpe, f. 
46. Centrococcyx eurycercus, Cab. & Heine. 
47. Centrococcyx afeinis (Horsf.). M. 
48. Lanius lucionensis (L.). *. 
49. Graucalus sumatrensis (S. Mtill.). M. 
M. 
50. Lalage dominica (L. S. Miill.). M. 
51. Artamus leucorhynchus (L.). M. 
52. Pericrocotus igneus, Blyth. M. 
