126 Mr. J. II. Gurncy on Birds 



many for about a fortnight. I think they were only on 

 passage. 



198. Larus ridibundus, Linn. 



Kandahar, I c^ , 30,12,80; Argendab river, 2c?, 13,2,81 ; 

 Kandahar, 1 c?, 21,2,81; Do., 1 c?, 26,2,81; Do., 1 ? , 11,3,81; 

 Do., 1 ? , 17,3,81. 



Commenced arriving about Christmas, were in large packs 

 on the Kandahar marsh up to date of our departure. 



199. Phalacrocorax CARBo (Linn.). 



Argendab river, 1 $ immature, 14,3,81 ; Do., 1 $ adult, 

 16,3,81. 



The only two observed. 



IX. — Notes on the Raptorial Birds collected in New Britain by 

 Lieut. G. E. Richards, R.N. By J. H. Gurney. 



(Plate II.) 



Canon Tristram having submitted to my examination the 

 series of raptorial birds collected by Lieut. G. E. Richards in 

 New Britain, I have great pleasure in offering the subjoined 

 notes on them. 



1. Urospizias etorques, Salvad. 



I have followed Dr. Sclater {vide P. Z. S. 1877, p. 109, and 

 1879, p. 447) in supposing the New-Britain Hawk, which 

 closely resembles U. etorques of New Guinea, to be identical 

 with that species ; but never having had an opportunity of 

 examining an adult New-Guinea specimen, I feel by no means 

 certain that such is the case. 



In the present collection there are three adult specimens, 

 all shot at Blanche Bay in the month of Juoe, and all 

 ticketed by Lieut. Richards as follows: — '^ Female: iris 

 brown ; feet orange ; bill black, yellow at base." 



Dr. Sclater describes the specimen (presumably the adult) 

 from the New-Britain group which he examined, and recorded 

 in the P. Z. S. for 1877, as having the tail-feathers '^nearly 

 uniform plumbeous, with but very faint indications of any 



