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2 cJcJ, 2 ? ? ad., Upper Setekwa River, July to November 1910. A. S. Meek 

 coll. See Mv. Zool. xx., 1913, p. 483. 



c? ?, Kamasi River, 4. vi., 14. viii. 1907. Nos. 3107, 3411, A. S. Meek coll. 



? ad., Mt. Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, 13. ix. 1896. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 (?, 2 ? ? , Milne Bay, 11. iv., 25. x., 24. xi. 1898. A. S. Meek coll. 



(? ad.. Fly River, 6. ix. 1877. D'Albertis coll. (Specimen z of Salvadori".-i 

 list, Orn. Pap. i. p. 29.) 



1 ad., Mts. of Kotoi, British New Guinea, August 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. 

 (S ad., Dobbo, Am Islands, 7. xii. 1883. Guillemard coll. 



Jan. Wannambai, Ara Islands, 28. vi. 1896. Cayley Webster coll. 



11. Baza subcristata megala Stres. 



Baza subcristata megala Stresemann, Not'. Zool. xx. p. 307 (1913 — Fergusson Island) ; cf. Nov. 

 Zool. xxi. p. 3 (Goodenough I.). 



2 c?J, 1 ?, 1 sex undetermined, Fergusson Island, collected by A. S. Meek 

 in 1894 and 1897. (? no. 627 : type oi megala.) 



S ad., Goodenough Island, l.iv. 1913. No. .5.530, A. S. Meek coll. 

 There is absolutely no difference between megala and reinwardtii except the 

 very slightly larger size of the former, which, however, cannot be denied. 



12. Baza subcristata bismarcki Sharpe. 



Baza bismarcki Sharpe, in Gould's B. New Guinea i. pi. 4 (1888 — Bismarck Archipelago). 



2 ad. (apparently males). Expedition Bay, New Hanover, 24. iii. 1897. 

 Cayley Webster coll. 



(J, Tobera, New Britain, October 1905. C. Wahnes coll. 



For the differences of the various forms of B. stibcri.stata see Nor. Zool. 1901. 

 pp. 378, 379, and for measurements Stresemann, op. cit. 1913, p. 308. 



13. Falco peregrinus calidus Lath. 



Falco calidus Latham, Lid. Orn. i. p. 41 (1700 — India, Ex Latham, Supjd. Gen. Sipiops. p. 35. 

 no. 112). 



" c? ? ," Sariba Island, British New Guinea, 23. xi. 1909, 17. iv. 1910. Receiveil 

 from A. S. Meek. 



(For distribution see Hartert, Vog. iml. Fauna ii. p. 1047.) We have seen 

 no other record for New Guinea. 



14. Falco peregrinus ernesti Sharpe. 



Falco e.riiesli Sharpe, Ihis 1894. p. 545 (Borneo, collected by Mr. Ernest Hose). 



? ad , Dutch New Guinea. From native hunters. Wing 319 mm. 

 ? juv., Kiimusi River, British New Gainea, 15. vi. 190S. A. S. Meek coll. 

 S ad., Eafa district, between Mts. Alexander and Bellamy, October 1895. 

 A. S. Anthony coll. Wing 280 mm. 



¥ fere ad., Woodlark Island, 3. viii. 1895. A. S. Meek coll. 



15. Falco severus Horsf. 



Falco severus Horsfield, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, xiii. p. 135 (1821 — Java). 



Messrs. Meyer & Wiglesworth, in their admirable work on the Birds of Celebes 

 (vol. i. p. 84), have separated three subspecies of Falco severus : F. severus severus, 



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