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which they call aa intermediate race from the Snnda Islands, Celebes, and probably 

 other islands of the Archipelago ; F. severus indicus, the western extreme, which is to 

 be lighter in colour, and F. seMrus papuanus, the extreme eastern, darkest form. 

 As we have said before (Toi'. Zool. 190.5 pp. 251, 252), we cannot see the slightest 

 differences between Papuan and Sunda Islands specimens, while our examples from 

 British India are generally slightly paler, but our series from there is poor. We 

 must therefore call the Papuan birds F. severus severus, or simply F. severus, until 

 the value of the Indian race is better established. 



Mr. Stresemann {Xov. Zool. 1914, p. 77), evidently following Salvadori, quotes 

 as a synonym of Falco longipennis : F. religiosus Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. 

 p. 397. This is evidently not quite correct, as Sharpe describes in the first instance 

 a bird (and probably the identical one) as figured in fig. 5 on plate 2 of Schlegel's 

 Voi/. j^ederl. Ind., Valkvogels, which is a F. ,'iemrus, and afterwards the melanistic 

 specimen, of which he says that it is marked as the type oireligiosus, '' but probably 

 in error." What that really means is not clear, as Sharpe was the first to publish 

 the name rdigiosus, and to give a description of it. Salvadori corrects {Orn. Pap. 

 i. p. 30) Sharpe's statements with regard to Schlegel's views, and, having examined 

 the dark bird, comes to the conclusion that it is a melanistic F. longipennis 

 (liumlatus). The name religiosus should therefore be quoted with " partim " in the 

 synonymy of both F. severus and F. longipennis. 



We have the following skins of /'. sccerus from the Papuan Islands : 



? ad., Waropcn, near Kurndu, April 1897. Bought by Will. Doherty. 



<? ad.,Sattelberg, Huon Gulf. Bought from Prof. Forster. 



(? juv., Owgarra, Angabunga River, 6000-8(JOO ft., 18. ii. 19U5. No. A 2112, 

 A. S. Meek coll. 



2 ad., 1 juv. Mt. Victoria, Owen Stanley Range 500U-7000 ft. A. S. Anthony 

 coll. 



(? ad., Mt. Cameron Ifi. viii. 1896. A. S. Anthony coll. 



? ad., Moroka, Owen Stanley Mts., 3000-6000 ft. A. S. Anthony coll. 



? juv., Milne Bay, 23. iii. 1890. A. S. Meek coll. 



16. leracidea berigora novaeguineae A. B. Mey. 



Hieracidea novaeguineae A. B. Meyer, Juur/i.f. Urn. 18'.I4 p. 8',i. (" Nova Guinea orientalis," types 

 from German New Guinea.) See antea, p. IG. 



? Dampier Island, 25. ii. 1914. No. 6736, Meek coll. 



S d., Vulcan Island, 28. xii. 1913. No. 6488, Meek coll. 



2 cJ (?, 1 ? , Owgarra, Angabunga River, Oct. 1904— Jan. 1905. A. S. Meek coll. 



? , Avera, Arha River, 3. vi. 1903. A. S. Meek coll. 



1 juv., Sattelberg, German New Guinea, 17. xi. C. Wahnes coll. 



? ad., Simbang, German New Guinea, 8. vii. 1899. E. Nyman coll. 



17. Harpyopsis novaeguineae Salvad. 



Harpyopsh novae guineae Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 682 (1875 — Andai !). 



1, " New Guinea," bought from Gerrard. (Evidently a skin collected in British 

 New Guinea by Goldie.) 



2 cJc?, Kabadi, British New Guinea, November 1899. Emil Weiske coll. 



1, Sogeri district, British New Guinea, jjurchased from Messrs. Mcllwraith & Co. 

 S, Mt. Musgrave, 7. viii. 1898. Anthony coll. 



