of Madagascar and the adjacent Islands. 447 



p. 32) to occur also in the neighbouring islands of St. Mary, 

 Nossi-be, and Nossi-falie. 



6. TiNNUNCULUs PUMCTATUS (Temm.). Mauritian Kestrel. 

 This Kestrel seems to be peculiar to the island of Mauritius, 



though MM. Schlegel and Pollen state {op. cit. p. 34) that it 

 appears to wander occasionally to that of Reunion*. 



7. Spizaetus OCCIPITALIS (Daudin). Occipital Hawk-Eagle. 

 MM. Schlegel and Pollen [op. cit. p. 35) refer to one example 



of this African species seen, but not obtained, near Nossi-falie. 



8. AcciPiTER FRANCisc^t, A. Smith. 



9. AcciPiTER MADAGASCARiENSis, Vcrrcaux. 



MM. Schlegel and Pollen state {op. cit. p. 36) that the two 

 species above mentioned are not really distinct, and that the 

 first name has been applied by ornithologists only to those male 

 specimens in which the under parts are of a pure white or nearly 

 so, while the second name has been attached to female birds, or 

 to those males more or less resembling the female in plu- 

 mage from having the breast and abdomen transversely barred 

 with brown or rufous markings, the intensity of which varies 

 greatly in diflPerent individuals. After a comparison of specimens 

 of both the so-called species in the Norwich Museum and in the 

 collection of Messrs. A. and E. Newton, as well as an examina- 

 tion of the large series in the Museum at Paris, I confess I feel 

 doubtful as to whether this identification is or is not correct ; 

 but I lean to the opinion that the two are distinct, as, if other- 

 wise, the adult male birds difi"er greatly in the colouring of the 

 pectoral and abdominal portions of their plumage, and more so 

 than seems to be probable in the same species. 



Both these Hawks are natives of Madagascar ; and the white- 

 breasted form {A. fi-anciscce) occurs also in the Comoro islands, 

 whence one of two examples obtained by the late Dr. Dickerson, 

 and now in the Norwich Museum, was described and figured in 



* I do not iuclude in this list any notice of T. gracilis of tlie Seychelles, 

 on account of the great distance of those islands from Madagascar. 



t This would seem to be the right mode of spelling the name of this 

 species, which Sir A. Smith conferred in honour of Lady Frances Cole 

 (S. Afr. Q. Journ. 2nd ser. p. 280). 



