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all feathers margined with rusty rufous; shoulders deep rufous. Underside white ; 

 cliin, throat, and breast longitudinally striped with brown; abdomen with more 

 rounded pale rufous spots. Thighs entirely rufous, the feathers with paler edges. 

 Quills more distinctly barred than adult birds. A rivde shows most instrvictively 

 some of the barred feathers of the entirely different adult plumage on the breast. 

 3 adult wing 195 mm., ? adult wing 230 mm. " Iris pale golden." 



The species is widely spread.- Sharpe in tiie Cat. B. I. gives only Timor as its 

 " habitat," but see Schlegel, Mits. d'Hist. Nut. Pays-Bas AccipUres, p. 91, etc. 



48. Timiunculus moluccensis occidentalis .Mey. iV Wigl. 

 Djampea and Kalao. Similar to those from Celebes (ro(Y«>, ]i. 162). 



49. Spilomis rufipectus (lould. 



[^aleyer, November 1895. Two adult birds. Throat slaty black; feathers under 

 the eye and ear-coverts dark grey, somewhat in contrast with the throat, and specially 

 so with its lower, darker part. In the adult bird from South Celebes (see antea, 

 p. 161j all these parts are alike and much darker, while they are also nearly alike, 

 but altogether very much jialer, in a bird from North Celebes. These birds are very 

 variable.* 



50. Pandion haliaetus leucocephalus Uoukl. 

 1 ?. Kalao, December 1895. Wing 440 mm. The head is nearly (juite white, 

 though there are some dark spots on the occiput. I am inclined to place this bird 

 with the subspecies leucocephalus, which cannot possibly be called a species, the 

 smaller size and the whiter head being the only characters to distinguish it, and 

 both these being rather variable. I have before me, for example, in the Tring 

 Museum, specimens from the Solomons with pure white head, as well as others which 

 are more densely striped than any from North Asia, etc., before me now, tliuugh they 

 agree in being generally a little smaller. 



51. Osmotreron wallacei Salvad. 



One mcde from Saleyer. It is exactly as brick-red on the mantle as the male 

 from Indrularaan which I mentioned antea, p. 163. It is possible tluit the specimens 

 from South Celebes, including those from Saleyer, are all like these two, and in this 

 case they would have to be recognised as a slightly differentiated form and would 

 deserve a subspecific name. As the colour of the mantle seems to vary a little 

 according to age or freshness of plumage, it is not possible to decide about this 

 question from the scanty material now before me. 



52. Osmotreron wallacei pallidior subsp. nov. 



A series from Djairipi-a and Kalao are closely allied to 0. tvallacei tijpica from 

 Celebes, the nudes agreeing in the colour of the mantle with the northjem specimens, 

 and not with those from South Celebes and Saleyer, but being larger, with a stronger 

 bill and a little longer wing, the head paler grey, the throat lighter and a little more 

 washed with grey, the entire breast and alxlouien of a paler green, the anal region 



* I may here remark that my hirtls from Buiiguran, Natuna Islands (Kov. ZoOL. I. p. 4sl' ami II. 

 |). 476), arc, in my uiiiniun, tlie same species as Sji. .talcadorii liorl., op.cit. II. p. 73. — E. H. 



