302 Mr. J. H. Gumey's Notes on 



J adult, Chili 



5 adult, Port Desire 



2 iinniaturc^, Falldmid Island* . 



The nearly allied F. melanogenys is a race mueh more 

 widely distributed than F. cassini ; it inhabits Tasmania and 

 South-eastern Australia. The Norwich Museum possesses 

 a specimen from Port Curtis, in Queensland, which is the 

 most northerly Australian example I am acquainted with. 

 Mr. E. P. Ramsay has recorded it from as far west as Port 

 Lincoln, in South Australia"^ ; but I am not aware that its 

 occurrence has been put on record either in Western or 

 Northern Australia, or in New Guinea. 



Specimens have, however, been obtained in various loca- 

 lities to the east and to the north ofthe Australian continent, 

 of which the following have been already recorded in the 

 pages 'of 'The Ibis,^ — New Britain t, New Caledonia J, New 

 Hebrides §, and the Fijian Islands y. 



Two females from Java are preserved in the Leyden Mu- 

 seum, one of which is represented in SchlegePs ' Valk- Vogel/ 

 pi. 1. fig. 2. 



Count Salvadori has recorded a Sumatran example in his 



' Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche,^ vol. i. p. 33. 



The Norwich Museum possesses an immature female, which 



was stated by the late Jules Verreaux to have been obtained 



in the Philippine Islands. 



Lastly, I must mention a most remarkable Falcon, appa- 

 rently an individual of this species, but abnormal in the 

 intensity of its coloration, both schistaceous and rufous. 

 This was obtained near the Lawas river, in Borneo, by Mr. 

 W. Prettyman, and left for identification at the British 

 Museum, where, by the kindness of Mr. Sharpe, I was per- 

 mitted to examine it and make the following notes respecting 

 it. I must not omit to say that the bird ai)peared to be 



* Vide ' Catalogue of the Australian Accipitres,' p. 49. 

 t Ibis, 1881, p. 535. J Ibis, 1878, p. 251. § Ibis, 1881, p. 134. 



II Ibis, 1882, p. 153 ; another Fijian specimen is in the collection of 

 Canon Tristr.ani. 



