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85. Astur torquatus (Temm.)- 



From Endeh and Maugarai, from the low coiiutry up to abont 220U feet above 

 the sea. S ad. " Iris goldeu yellow; cere greenish: bill black; legs clirome-yellow; 

 claws black." ? ad. 'W'iug 249 ami 251 mm. d ad. Wing 234 mm. A yonng 

 female shows among its striped jilumage a freshly moulted ])arred feather, and thus 

 seems to indicate that the plumage of the old bird is entirely gained by moult, as 

 also others which I saw seem to ])rove. 



86. Astur sylvestris (Wall.). 



A good series from the lower parts of Maugarai. Females' wing 200 to 207 mm. ; 

 males' wing 183 to 188 mm.; sexes alike in colour. ? ad. " Irides deep red; bill 

 jet-black; cere deep pure chrome-yellow; basal half of bill and eyelids lighter 

 chrome- j'ellow; legs dull wax-yellow: claws black." Young birds are above rufous; 

 the feathers of the upper parts are rufous with a large dark brown central spot, and 

 white towards the base. From this plumage, which looks very much like that of a 

 kestrel, they moult directly into the slaty grey of the jjerfectly adult bird, but before 

 the moult their feathers become faded and very much abraded, so much in fact 

 that the broad rufous edges disappear and the brown spots become much smaller, 

 so that the back looks brown and white, in parts almost i[uite white. Also below 

 the plumage of the 3'oung bird passes into that of the adult by a direct moult. 



87. Astur (Tachyspiza) soloensis (Lath.). 



One young male from the low country of South Flores. " Irides golden yellow; 

 cere chrome-j'ellow ; bill black, the base greenish plumbeous; legs wax-yellow; 

 claws black." The under parts are white, brown shaft-Hues and a large round brown 

 spot before the tip, but the breast shows two feathers which are light rofous with 

 pale rufous brown cross-bars towards the base. Wing 183 mm. 



88. Accipiter virgatus (Temm.). 

 One young male from Mount Repok in the Maugarai country, above 35u0 feet. 



80. Tinnunculus moluccensis occidentalis M. & Wg. 

 Both sexes from Maugarai. 



90. Baza subcristata (Gould). 



A series of a Baza from South Flores belongs to 7>. subcristata. Biittikofer has 

 already recorded this species from Flores. B. subcristata closely resembles B. rein- 

 mirdti from the Papuan Islands, and some specimens are hardly distinguishable, 

 although mostly B. subcristata reinwardti, as this form must be called, has darker 

 brown bars on the abdomen. 



I must here correct a mistake which I made before. ^\'hat I recorded as 

 B. reinwardti in Nov. Zool. III. jx 177, from Ujampea, and j). 598, from Lombok, 

 are both B. subcristata subcristata, not B. reinwardti. 



91. Haliastur Indus intermedius (Gurney). 

 With narrow shaft-lines, from South Flores. 



