366 Mr. J. H. Gnrney's Notes on 



Pekin by Mr. Whitely, is ticketed by him as having a " dark 

 reddish brown " iris. 



I may add that Mr. Swinhoc, who has observed both in 

 China in a state of nature^ considers them to be decidedly 

 distinct, and informs me that the egg of the darker race is 

 always both proportionally more elongated and also actually 

 longer than that of the paler bird, and that the dark colouring 

 with which the egg of the former is stained resembles in its 

 disposition and appearance that on the egg of Scelospizias 

 badius, whilst the egg of the latter is marked with dark 

 blotches resembling those upon the egg of Accipiter nisus — a 

 difference which is very apparent in the specimens of these 

 eggs which are preserved in Mr. Swinhoe^s cabinet, where he 

 was so good as to allow me the opportunity of examining 

 them. 



The genus Astur in Mr. Sharpens Catalogue is followed by 

 the curious Madagascar Hawk, Nisoides moreli, which Mr. 

 Sharpe admits (and I think correctly) to be sufficiently dis- 

 tinct to constitute a separate genus, as proposed by its first 

 describer, M. Pollen; next to which the genus Accipiter is 

 arranged, in which twenty-three species are included : but 

 before proceeding to the consideration of these, I have to 

 describe a species belonging to that genus which has for 

 some years formed part of the collection in the Norwich Mu- 

 seum, but which (through an oversight on my own part) has 

 not hitherto been recognized as new to science, though there 

 seems to be no doubt that it really is so. 



Having recently had occasion to examine the series of spe- 

 cimens of Scelospizias polyzonoides in the Norwich Museum, 

 I observed amongst them two Hawks which, though re- 

 sembling that species in coloration and markings, were evi- 

 dently somewhat larger ; and on examining them more closely, 

 I found that they also differed from it in the proportion of 

 the foot, which presented all the characters of the more ty- 

 pical species of the genus Accipiter. 



Of these two Hawks, one is evidently fully adult, and the 

 other immature, but commencing its change into adult dress ; 

 both were obtained by the late Mr. C. J. Andersson — the first 



