On a new Hawk from Bouru. 473 



is similar to the Lifu bird, frequenting the dense bush, and 

 visiting the deserted native plantations at certain seasons, 

 while, equally with it, it was extremely shy and difficult of 

 approach. 



Of the female we have yet no knowledge ; but we trust our 

 kind correspondent, to whom we are sending a jar of alcohol, 

 will soon be able to fill up the hiatus. 



XLVII. — On a new Hawk of the Genus Urospizias, Kaup, 

 from Bouru. By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S. 



Until quite recently only one specimen of the genus Urospi- 

 zias, Kaup, from Bouru, had reached Europe. This was a 

 young one obtained by ]\Ir. Wallace, and mentioned by him 

 first as Accipiter cruentus, Gould^, and afterwards as Accipiter 

 torquatus, Cuv.f^ he having rightly recognized that Gould's 

 species was the same as that of Cuvier. The same specimen 

 has been more recently assigned by Mr. Sharpe to his Astur 

 luallacii, from LombockJ. Having myself seen the speci- 

 men in the British Museum, I was rather inclined to follow 

 Mr. Wallace^s opinion, and, with a query, I have included 

 Bouru among the localities inhabited by Urospizias tor- 

 quatus^. 



Towards the end of 1878 Mr. Shai-pe, having just paid a 

 visit to the Leyden Museum, wrote to me about a new Astur 

 from Bouru, of which the Leyden Museum had quite lately 

 received a fully adult specimen, and Avhich would be described 

 by Prof Schlegel as a new sjjecies. 



I was anxiously looking for the description of the new 

 Hawk, when I received from Prof. Schlegel his " Notes from 

 the Leyden Museum,^' where, under the head of Nisus rufi- 

 torques, among many other unjustly rejected species, I found 

 mentioned and described the fully adult Hawk from Bouru ||. 



The description being unsatisfactory and incomplete, I 

 wrote to Prof. Schlegel asking for a more full one, which he 



* P. Z. S. 1863, p. 22. t Ibis, 18G8, p. 11. 



t Cat. B. i. p. 128 (1874). 



§ Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 38. n. 28 (1878). i| 1. p. 2 (1878). 



