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PICIDAE. 

 >1. lyng-ipicus grandis Hargitt. 

 Both sexes from Mangarai. 



('ORAClIl)AE. 

 82. Eurystomus orientalis australis (Sw.). 

 Four typical amtralis from Mangarai. 



KAPACES DIURNAE. 

 8:5. Limnaetus limnaetus floris snlis]). nov. 



In 18G0 H. Schlegel, in Di> Vogels van Nederlandsck Indie, Valkvogels, p. 5.5, 

 already mentioned, and figured very well on PI. VI., fig. 2, a specimen in the 

 white phimage of this species from Flores, and said that it difters from other 

 specimens in being purer white below, deeper brown and nearly black above, and 

 very large. Neither Wallace nor Weber got a specimen in Flores. Now Mr. Everett 

 has sent two adult birds, both marked " t? " by his native skinners, which perfectly 

 agree with Schlegel's description and figure. The head is white, the feathers of the 

 crown dark brown towards the tips. Remainder of upjierside very deep brown, with 

 less pale margins to the feathers. Tail very distinctly barred. Entire under 

 surface, including breast, under wing-coverts, thighs, and tarsi, pure white iu one of 

 the two specimens, with some faint pale rufous brown cross-markings on the breast, 

 sides of breast, and thighs in the other, but no sign of the dark central longitudinal 

 spots on the breast found even in the whitest L. limnartKS from Borneo and Sumatra, 

 of which we possess a good series in the Tring Museum. Total length about 63 cm.; 

 wing 437 to 450 mm.; tail 296 mm. These measurements do not quite, though 

 nearly, reach those of the biggest /gw/^Zc-i from Borneo and Sumatra I have been 

 able to measure; therefore, if the specimens are really males (and the sex-markings 

 of Everett's natives in Flores are, it seems, always right), then the difference in 

 size of the Flores subspecies is enormous. The two specimens have a very strong 

 fishy smell. 



84. Circaetus gallicus hypoleucus (Pall.). 



As it is, it seems that the birds which breed in France and Germany, and 

 probably those from other parts of Europe, have a distinct brown breast-shield, 

 while among the many specimens from India and other parts of Asia the breast- 

 shield is not distinct, there being much more white on the breast and throat. The 

 skin from South Flores has only brown shaft-lines to the feathers of the throat and 

 chest. To settle all about the Eastern form with more white below, it is, however, 

 necessary to study birds from their breeding-places, as India is the ha])py winter 

 resort of birds from many parts, and birds shot there iu winter, which are represented 

 in large series in the British and other Museums, are jwactically homeless. If an 

 Eastern form is distinguished, it should bear Pallas'a name hijijolcucas, C. L. Brehm's 

 name tneridionalis being much more recent. 



