Raptoi'es in the Norivich Museum. 455 



Two Australian females of this species ia the Norwich Mu- 

 seum are considerably larger, and measure as under : — 



Wing. Tarsus. Middle toe s. u. 



in. in. in. 



$ , Swan lliver 15-20 2.40 1-70 



2 , Queensland 15-80 2-40 1-80 



The difference in size between the sexes of the nearly 

 allied N. pennatus is decidedly less, as will be seen by the 

 undermentioned dimensions of a male and female of that 

 species preserved in the Norwich Museum : — 



S 1 France . . 

 $, Morocco 



4. A specimen of Macharamphus alcinus, Westerm,, also 

 obtained on the Astrolabe Mountains by Mr. Goldie. This 

 species has already been recorded from New Guinea by Mr. 

 Sharpe* and by Mr. E. P. Ramsayt, who mentions that his 

 specimens (a male and female) were both destitute of the 

 occipital crest ; there is, however, an elongation of the occi- 

 pital feathers, which may be said to amount to a crest, in 

 Mr. Goldie^s specimen, which is unsexed, but measures as 

 follows : — Wing 13"80 inches, tarsus 2" 10, middle toe s. u. 

 rSO, occipital crest 2. 



This example agrees with those described by Mr. Ramsay 

 in having a distinct, though somewhat irregular, white nuchal 

 collar. 



5. A specimen of Ninox assimilis, Salvad. & D^Alb., ob- 

 tained on the Astrolabe Mountains, New Guinea, by Mr. 

 Goldie, who has made the following note with reference 

 to it, viz. : — " Eyes bright yellow, feet chrome-yellow. It 

 measures as follows :— Wing 106 inches, tarsus 1'4, middle 

 toe s. u. 1*4. 



6. Two examples of Rostrhamus plumbeus, Ridgw. {vide 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 341) . The Awl-billed Kite inhabiting Florida 



* Vide Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology), vol. xiii. p. 308. 

 t Vide "Cont. to the Zoology of New Guinea," in Proc. of Linnoeau 

 Society of New South Wales, 1879, p. 247. 



