3G-i Mr. J. H. Gurupy's Notes on 



Finally, I may mention that Dr. Conirie, late surgeon of 

 H.M.S. ' Basilisk/ under the comraand of Capt. Moresby, has 

 placed in my hands for determination a small collection of 

 bird-skins, made during the survey of the N.E. coast of New 

 Guinea, of which Capt. Moresby has lately given us such an 

 interesting narrative*. Amongst these are a single skin of 

 a fine new Manuco dia, v^hich I described at a recent Meet- 

 ing of the Zoological Society as M. comrii, and several ex- 

 amples of that rare Lory Lorius hypoenochrous of G. R. Gray 

 — both fine additions to the Papuan avifauna. 



May 13, 1876. 



XXXIV. — Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the 

 British Museum' by R. Rowdier Sharpe (1874). By J. H. 



GURNEY. 



[Oontinued from p. 243.] 



It will be convenient in considering the Old- World species 

 of the genus Buteo to commence with B. vulgaris ; and in 

 doing so I would remark that Mr. Sharpe only alludes in 

 somewhat general terms to the geographical range of this 

 species, but that a detailed account of the localities where it 

 has been ascertained to exist will be found in Mr. Dresser's 

 recent article on this species in his ' Birds of Europe ;' and to 

 this account I have only to add, with reference to its western 

 range, that the Norwich Museum contains an adult pairf, 

 with their nestling young, obtained in the island of Madeira, 

 and, with reference to its eastern, that the same collection 

 possesses specimens from Trebizond and Erzeroom. , 



It is well known that this species is very subject to partial 

 leucotism ; but how far this is limited to young birds does not 

 appear to have been accurately ascertained ; I have, however, 

 observed that such examples usually have a straw-coloured 



* See above, p. 259. 



■f These specimens have been recently examined by Mr. Dresser, who 

 agrees with me in referring them to B. vulgu7-is, of which they are, in 

 fact, typic&l ej^amples. 



