Notes on Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue of Accipitres. 325 



Typical specimens of Garrulax galbanus and Suthora mu- 

 nipurensis ; presented by Major H. H. Godwin- Austen. 



The type of Horeites pallidipes from Sikkim ; presented by 

 L. Mandelli, Esq. 



Two collections of 246 specimens from N.W. Borneo ; one 

 made by H. Low, Esq., the other by Mr. A. Everett. 



A series of 77 specimens collected by Dr. Steere in the 

 Philippine Islands, by which 20 species were added to the 

 British-Museum collection. 



Six species new to the collection, and represented by 12 

 specimens from Taviuni, Fiji Islands ; collected by E. L. 

 Layard, Esq. 



The type of Casuarius westermanni, and specimens of C. 

 picticollis and C.beccarii; purchased of the Zoological Society. 



A series of the lately described new species of Bird of Para- 

 dise {Paradisea raggiana) ; purchased. 



A small collection from South-eastern New Guinea; pur- 

 chased. 



Specimens of Paradigalla cariinculata from the Arfak 

 Mountains, and of Tanysiptera Carolina from Mafoor ; ob- 

 tained by exchange. 



Thirteen specimens from the Galapagos Islands ; collected 

 by Commander W. E. Cookson. 



XXVI. — Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the 

 British Museum,' by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. 



GURNEY. 



[Continued from p. 236.] 



The next Eagle which I propose to consider is that figured 

 in plate 29 of the late Dr. Gray's ' Illustrations of Indian 

 Zoology ' under the name of " Aquila fulvescens." The type 

 of this species is, I believe, not now in existence ; and Mr. 

 Sharpe quotes " fulvescens" as a synonym of " vindhiana;" 

 but, as already mentioned {antea, p. 225), I cannot agree with 

 him in this view. 



In 'The Ibis' for 1871, at p. 245, the late Dr. Jerdon stated 



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