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and longer, and the tail extremely pale bnff, almost white, with the dark bars very 

 narrow and almost obsolete. It is necessary to distinguish them as a subspecies, 

 and I call them 



Strix flammea sumbaensis sabsp. nov. 



I hope on a future occasion to return to the Idstory of tlie various forms of the 

 gemis Strix, which is apparently very difficult. 



27. Astur torquatus (Temm.).* 



A series of old and yonng, some of the latter still showing some down. The 

 aid individuals are very pale above and below. It is not impossible that they are 

 separable as a local form, but as all old birds are in somewhat abraded plumage, it 

 is unwise to bestow a name on them. Moreover the yonng birds agree with those 

 from Djampea and Kalao. The iris of a cj ad. is " deep golden yellow ; cere 

 ochreons yellow, tinged at the base with green ; bill black, median portion lead- 

 grey, base dark green; legs wax-yellow, claws black." In the yonng birds with 

 some down left (first plumage) the borders of the feathers above are of a very dark 

 rusty rufous colour, while in the full plumaged young bird they fade to a pale 

 rusty brown. On the young S in first plumage the iris is marked as "olive; cere 

 dark olive-greeu; bill black; legs pale greenish yellow." In a ? in tlie same age : 

 "Iris olive: cere dark olive-green; bill black; legs pale greenish yellow." In 

 a full plumaged much older yonng ? : " Bill and cere blackish; legs greenisli yellow, 

 claws jet-black." 



28. Tinnunculus moluccensis occidentalis Mey. k ^Vigl. 



Several old and yonng. The young bird in first plumage is a little darker 

 above, where it looks very much like a European 7'. tinnunculus, being longi- 

 tudinally spotted with black on the crown, and with large cross-patches on the 

 back, rump, scapulars, and secondaries. Below rather paler than old birds, and 

 with large black longitudinal spots. The tail is grey with rusty buff tips and with 

 broad snbterminal black bars, and shows obsolete black cross-bars. 



29. Haliastur Indus intermedius (Gurney). 

 Two adult males. 



30. Ptilinopus ewingi Gould. 



A careful comparison of the very large series of this species sent by Everett from 

 SavQ with the material in the British Museum has convinced me that the so-called 



• Under the name of AsUir torquatus (Temm.) I mentioned a hawk from Sumba, collected by Dohcrtj. 

 I was then not aware that A. B. Meyer, in an article on binla from (Jerman New Guinea and on other 

 Papuan bird.'i.on p. 7 of No. 3, Ahh. iinil Jirr. Mus. Itrt-mlrn, 1892-93, had described an L'rospizias sumbaengii 

 sp. nov., and 1 did not have enough material for comparison to .separate the bird before me. I have now 

 come to the conclusion that the Sumba bird sent by lloherty is not A. tttrquatvs. nw(\ that it must hear 

 Meyer's name, although that author described his species fi-oni a young bird in widely different plumage. 



The old (J A. sumbai'nsis (A. li. Meyer), as I should call this form, differs from iimle^ of A. ttvqjtatiis 

 principally in the under parts, which are white, barred across with rufous brown bars, slightly shmled with 

 grey, the throat aUo being cross-barrfd, but more uuth a greyish rottrur, not rufous. Lower abdomen, belly, 

 and under tail-coverts much lighter, but also distinctly barred. 



The collar on the hindneck is of a darker rufous. 



The thighs are white, with pale rufous cross-bars, 



Wing 2IC mm. ; tarsus BB|; tail 170, 



