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dacrt called it P. speciosa. Ought not the credit of having 

 named D. guyUelnii-tertii to be given to Van Musschenbroek^ 

 as is done by Meyer himself ? 



I remain, 



Yours very truly, 



T. Salvadori. 



Northrepps, 13th March, 187G. 



SiR^ — In the late Mr. Blyth's valuable ' Catalogue of Mam- 

 mals and Birds of Burma,' recently published by the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, the ornithological portion of which is 

 edited and enriched with notes by Viscount Walden, the fol- 

 lowing editorial note occurs at page 62, under the head of 

 Accipiter virgatus : — '^'^Thayet Myo (F.). Captain Feilden 

 was good enough to send me the example here noted, and 

 which I provisionally identify with A. virgatus. In Mr. 

 Sharpens opinion it may belong to the race named A. steven- 

 soni by Mr. Gurney ; the latter gentleman, however, as will 

 be seen below, identified, though with doubt, this Thayet- 

 Myo example as belonging to 'A. rhodog aster, nearly adult/ '* 

 Through the kindness of Lord Walden I have had a second 

 opportunity of examining this specimen ; and having since I 

 first saw it, some years since, become better acquainted with 

 the variations of plumage incident to A. virgatus, I am now 

 ahle to state decidedly that it is a male of that species in the 

 second or intermediate plumage, described by me in ' The 

 Ibis' for 1875, p. 480. I was quite wrong in supposing that 

 it might be an example of A. rhodoyaster ; and it is equally a 

 mistake to refer it to A. stevensoni. I may add that this 

 specimen precisely agrees with one from India which is pre- 

 served in the Norwich Museum. 



I wish also to mention that through the kindness of Pro- 

 fessor Newton, and of his brother Mr. Edward Newton, I 

 have had an opportunity of examining a specimen of Circus 

 macroscelus lately received by the latter gentleman from Ma- 

 dagascar. The sex of this individual has not been recorded ; 

 but as its dimensions somewhat exceed those of the type speci- 



