APPENDIX C. 127 



APPENDIX C. 



On Urospizias datnpieri, U. etorques^ and U. misoriensis. 



Two specimens of Urospizias dampieri, which, so far as I know^ 

 were the first sent to Europe, formed part of a collection of 

 birds thus described by Dr. Sclater in the P. Z. S. for 1877, 

 p. 96 :— " Birds collected by Mr. George Brown, C.M.Z.S., in 

 Duke-of-York Island and on the adjoining parts of New Ire- 

 land and New Britain." In this paper (at p. 109) Dr. Sclater, 

 referring to these two Hawks under the title of "Accipiter 

 etorqnes,'' wrote thus respecting them : — '' An adult and a 



young specimen, apparently of this new species, are 



in the collection, but without exact locality .^^ 



These two specimens passed into the possession of the late 

 Lord Tweeddale, and are now in that of Capt. R. G. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay, who has kindly permitted me to examine them ; 

 they appear to me by their measurements to be both males, 

 the adult bird being certainly referable to Urospizias dampieri, 

 and, in my opinion, the immature specimen also, though it 

 has been suggested by Count Salvadori that the latter is a 

 young Leucospizias poliocephalus in a rufous phase of plumage 

 {vide Orn. della Papuasia e delle Molucche, pt. 1, pp. 45^ 

 47). 



The following are the measurements of these specimens, 

 which may be compared with those that I have recorded in 

 the ' Ibis' for 1882, p. 128 :— 



Presumed males. Wing. Tarsus. ^''^'^^^ 



° toe s. u. 



in. in. in. 



Adult (bearing Mr. Brown's mark "No. 62'') 8-50 2-20 1-30 



Immature (ditto ditto " No. 66 ") 8-20 2-20 1-30 



It may be useful to add the following details of their 



