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oad 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 axillars like the breast; quills below dusky brown, barred with yellowish buff, these bars broader toward the base of the inner web. Length, 444; wing, 330; tail, 190; culmen, 34; tarsus, 58.
"Of this fine owl Mr. Whitehead obtained several specimens. 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."
Female.--In colors similar to the male, but size slightly greater. "Iris brown; eyelids dark carmine; bill and nails black." Length, 460; wing, 340; tail, 200; culmen from base, 39; tarsus, 50.
"We heard a large owl, in all probability of this species, hooting at night in the Calamianes Islands; a single specimen was secured in Palawan; it measured, 432 in length; wing, 202; tail, 186; culmen, 26; tarsus, 61; middle toe with claw, 48."
Family ALUCONIDAE.
Middle toe pectinate; ruff around eyes and across throat fully developed; primaries much longer than secondaries; proximal half of tarsus fully feathered, distal half covered with much shorter, more hair-like plumes; toes sparsely covered with hairs; plumage very soft and fluffy.
Genus ALUCO Fleming, 1822.
Characters same as those given for the Family.
GRASS OWL.
Strix longimembris Jerdon, Madras Jour. , 10, 86. Strix candida Tickell, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal , 2, 572; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , 2, 308; Hand-List , 1, 302; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs , 2, 342; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List , 48. Aluco longimembris McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. , 3, sec. A, 283.
Cua-gong ta-l?-hib, Manila.
Batan ; Calamianes ; Cebu ; Luzon ; Mindanao ; Siquijor . Indian Peninsula, Burmese provinces, northern Australia, Fiji, Formosa, Celebes.
Adult male .--Feathers of upper parts dark brown, the bases and edges, more or less, yellowish buff, this color forming a collar on hind neck; many of the feathers of back and wing-coverts each with a small white spot near the tip; a blackish spot in front of each eye; face white slightly tinged with buff; stiff ruff-feathers white, the outer ones with black shafts and blackish brown tips; sides of neck light tawny-buff with large brown spots; under parts white with a few small black spots on breast and flanks; breast faintly washed with buff; wing-lining and axillars white with larger black spots; primaries and secondaries, above light buff, with dark brown bars and whitish tips, below white, the tips of primaries dark brown; primary-coverts orange-buff basally; rectrices white with four blackish brown bars, the bars obsolete on outermost pair. Bill white, legs dirty brown; nails brown. Length, 395; wing, 355; tail, 135; bill from anterior border of nostril, 19; tarsus, 85; middle toe with claw, 55.
Female .--Similar to the male from Benguet but darker; under parts heavily washed with ocherous-buff; face washed with vinaceous-brown; the blackish spots of under parts more numerous. Length, 406; wing, 368; tail, 130.
The difference in color between the male and female, as described above, is not due to either age or sex and occurs in many, if not in all, of the members of this genus.
Nestling .--Wings and tail, as far as developed, like those of the adult; body and legs thickly covered with yellowish buff down.
Order PSITTACIFORMES.
COCKATOOS AND PARROTS.
Bill short, extremely strong; upper mandible movable, cered and strongly hooked as in the birds of prey; toes four, the outer toe permanently reversed; tarsus short and stout, covered with small scales. Eggs pure white, seldom with any gloss; oval, or rarely spheroidal; deposited in hollow trees.
Families.
a1. Hook of bill underneath nearly smooth or with very superficial longitudinal ridges, but with no distinct file-like surface. ... Loriidae a2. Hook of bill underneath with a series of transverse ridges more or less bent along the median line and producing a file-like surface.
b1. Head crested; plumage nearly all white. ... Cacatuidae b2. Head without crest; plumage nearly all green, or green and blue, never white. ... Psittacidae
Family LORIIDAE.
Genus TRICHOGLOSSUS Vigors and Horsfield, 1826.
Characters same as those given for the Family.
MRS. JOHNSTONE'S LORIKEET.
Trichoglossus johnstoniae Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club , 14, 10; Novit. Zool. , 13, 755; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List , 48; Grant, Ibis , 495; Goodfellow, Avicult. Mag. , 4, 83 .
Mindanao .
Adult.--"Forehead dark rosy red, in the male obscured by greenish tips to the feathers; narrow loral line and broad line from the eyes backward meeting on the nape, dark brownish purple ; rest of crown and whole upper surface grass-green, the inner webs of remiges and first primary on both webs black, all, with the exception of the first three, with a large sulphur-yellow patch in the middle of inner webs; feathers round the mandible to ear-coverts dark rose-red, those toward the ear-coverts, with yellowish-green tips; feathers of under surface dull sulphur-yellow, with gray bases and broad green tips; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts more greenish yellow, the green tips less distinct; under wing-coverts yellowish green, those near edge of wing dark green and some of the longest ones pale yellow; tail from below greenish brownish-yellow. Wing, 106 to 108; tail, 71 to 74; bill from cere to tip, , 14.5; , 12; metatarsus about 13. 'Bill yellowish red.'"
Known only from specimens collected on Mount Apo, Mindanao.
Family CACATUIDAE.
Bill very strong; edge of upper mandible strongly sinuate; lower mandible with the lower face wide and slightly rounded; a large unfeathered space about the eye; head crested; tail moderate and square; plumage nearly all white in the single Philippine species.
Subfamily CACATUINAE.
Genus CACATUA Vieillot, 1817.
Characters same as those given for the Family.
PHILIPPINE COCKATOO.
Psittacus haematuropygius P. L. S. M?ller, Natursyst. Suppl. , 77. Cacatua haematuropygia Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , 20, 130; Sharpe, Hand-List , 2, 11; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List , 48.
Ca-ta-la, Manila; a-b?-cay, Ticao and Bohol; ca-lang'-ai, Lubang.
Balabac ; Bantayan ; Basilan ; Bohol ; Bongao ; Calamianes ; Cebu ; Guimaras ; Lapac ; Leyte ; Lubang ; Luzon ; Marinduque ; Masbate ; Mindanao ; Mindoro ; Negros ; Nipa ; Palawan ; Panaon ; Panay ; Samar ; Siquijor ; Sulu ; Tablas ; Tawi Tawi ; Ticao .
Adult .--White; under tail-coverts vermilion edged with white; inner webs of remiges and rectrices sulphur-yellow much deeper on the latter and in some specimens tinged with red; sexes similar. Length, 300 to 350; three specimens measure, wing, 210 to 218; tail, 112 to 117; culmen from cere, 25 to 27; tarsus, 19 to 20. Iris bright red; naked skin around eyes, pale pink; bill dirty white; legs and nails bluish.
The ear-coverts are usually tinged with vermilion and the bases of crest-feathers are suffused with sulphur-yellow but both of these characters are variable. Bourns and Worcester killed two specimens in Panay in which "the plumage showed a peculiar faint pinkish tinge."
The "catala" is usually met with in small flocks either in forest or fields; its presence is proclaimed by the conspicuous white plumage and harsh note. In the island of Ticao we observed this species nesting in holes in dead trees but we secured only young birds; these resembled the adult. Bourns and Worcester took nestlings in Masbate in May, 1888.
"Iris of females usually blood-red, sometimes brown. We are inclined to think red the normal color in fully adult females. Iris in males very dark brown to black; bare skin around the eye creamy white; bill drab, with white tip. Three females measure, 315 in length; wing, 206; tail, 110; culmen, 25; tarsus, 18; middle toe and claw, 38."
Family PSITTACIDAE.
Bill with a series of transverse ridges under the hook; head uncrested; colors green and blue, or green, blue, and red; never white.
Subfamily PALAEORNITHINAE.
Genera.
a1. Larger; length, more than 250 mm.; wing, more than 125 mm.
b1. Smaller; wing, about 150 mm.; middle pair of rectrices elongated and racket-tipped. ... Prioniturus b2. Larger; wing, about 200 mm.; rectrices graduate. ... Tanygnathus
a2. Smaller; length, less than 190 mm.; wing, less than 115 mm.
b1. Larger; bill heavier; culmen exceeding width of bill but little. ... Bolbopsittacus b2. Smaller; bill more slender; culmen twice the width of bill. ... Loriculus
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