432 Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 



Specimens from both Formosa and Japan are preserved in the 

 Norwich Museum ; and the only figure of this fine species 

 yet published is, I believe^ that of a Japanese specimen, not 

 fully adult, which is given on pi. 3 of the ' Fauna Jajjonica.^ 

 L. nipalensis has thus a more northern range than any other 

 species of the genus. 



I may here mention that by an accidental error the de- 

 scription of a nestling of Spilornis cheela, preserved in the 

 British Museum, has been inserted at p. 267 of Mr. Sharpe's 

 volume as that of a nestling of Lhnnaetus nipalensis. The 

 tarsi in this very young specimen are greatly decayed, which 

 probably led to this mistake. 



It is remarkable, as has been already pointed out by the 

 Marquis of Tweeddale *, that the peculiarity which appears in 

 this, the largest of the Limnaeti, of the tarsal feathering extend- 

 ing onto the first joint of the middle toe, is shared by only one 

 other species, and that the smallest of the genus, L. alhoniger, 

 respecting which I have nothing further to add to Mr. Sharpe's 

 account, except to observe that the Avhite tip to the crest in 

 the adult plumage is not a constant character, and also that 

 the Hawk-Eagle from Java, figured in Schlegel's 'Valk- 

 Vogels,' pi. 6. fig. 1, appears to me to be probably an imma- 

 ture example of this species, judging from this figure and 

 from the measurements of the bird quoted in the ' Museum 

 des Pays-Bas,' Astures, p. 11. 



Another of the smaller eastern Limnaeti is L. philippensis, 

 which appears to be confined to the Philippine Islands. Tliis 

 species is well figured in the Marquis of Tweeddale's valuable 

 paper on the Birds of the Philippine Archipelago f from an 

 adult specimen in the Norwich Museum ; a slightly younger 

 bird in the same collection is somewhat paler, especially about 

 the head, and is less distinctly barred on the lower part of 

 the tarsi. 



There is but one other eastern Hawk-Eagle, L. kieneri, 

 which Mr. Sharpe makes the type of his genus Lophotriorchis. 

 This bird certainly differs, in the character of its coloration, both 



* Vide Ibis, 1874, p. 128. 



t Vide '■ Transactions of the Zoological Society,' vol. ix. pi. 24. 



