"Adult male.--Above deep blackish slate-color, the nape slightly mottled with white, the crown and wing-coverts a little darker; quills dark brown, shaded with slate-color, without any bars above, the under surface paler and more ashy, inclining to pale rufous near the base of inner web, with blackish cross-bars; tail ashy gray above, whitish ashy beneath, paler at tip, and crossed with three bars of slaty black; ear-coverts and sides of neck slaty gray, the latter washed with rufous; fore part of cheeks and throat buffy white, with a few indistinct blackish shaft-lines here and there; rest of under surface bright vinous-chestnut, much paler on the thighs; abdomen and under tail-coverts white; under wing-coverts rich ocherous, the lower ones and the axillars irregularly barred with brownish. Cere yellow; bill black, lead-color at base; feet pale orange-yellow; iris yellow. Length, 279; culmen, 19; wing, 168; tail, 129; tarsus, 48. "Adult female.--A little larger than the male. Length, 330; wing, 188; tarsus, 56." (Sharpe.) 181. ACCIPITER MANILLENSIS (Meyen). PHILIPPINE SPARROW HAWK. Nisus manillensis Meyen, Beitr. (1834), 694, pl. 9. Accipiter virgatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 150 (part). Accipiter manillensis Grant, Ibis (1897), 212; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 254; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 41. Accipiter stevensoni Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 938, pl. 57. Cebu (McGregor); Guimaras (Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, Goodfellow); Mindoro (Everett, Porter); Negros (Steere). Adult.--Above brown; head, neck, and mantle with an ashy blue wash, basal portion of feathers white or with one or two large white spots; back, rump, and tail-coverts brown without hidden white spots; sides of head brown; chin and throat white with a narrow median brown line; remainder of under parts rich reddish brown or rusty chestnut, most intense and uniform on breast and sides, each feather barred with dark brown and white, the barred portion hidden, more or less, by the wide reddish brown tips; crissum white; wings brown, primaries barred with gray on distal part of inner webs and with ochraceous on basal part; secondaries barred with ochraceous on inner webs; scapulars with two or more large white spots, all concealed; axillars and wing-lining faint ochraceous, barred with brown; tail brown, crossed by five darker brown bars. Male from Benguet, Luzon.--Length, 254; wing, 156; tail, 114; culmen from base, 18; tarsus, 48; middle toe with claw, 35. Female from Benguet, Luzon.--Bill black, bluish at base, cere pea-green; iris and eyelids bright yellow; skin about eye and base of bill dull green; nails very dark brown; legs and feet light yellow. Length, 310; wing, 185; tail, 140; culmen from base, 20; tarsus, 53; middle toe with claw, 45.