1S72.] OX THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. 141 



Astiir harhatus, Eyton, Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 227, "Malacca" (184-j). 

 Buteo pygmmis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 177, "Tenassorim provinces," op. cit. 1850, 

 p. 339. 



Hah. Menado {mvs. nostr.) ; Gilolo {mus. nostr.) ; Lu^on [Dussnmier) ; Japan {SclihgcJ) ; 

 Morty Isl., Sanghir Isl. {Mus. Luqd.) • Java {Latham); Malacca {Eyton); Tenasserira Prov. 

 {Bhjth). 



The designation F. indiciis, Gm., is rejected by Professor Schlegel (Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 Buteonea), on the ground of its being undeterminable. Gmelin gave that title to the Javan 

 Hawk, described by Latham from an individual which flew on board a vessel off the coast of 

 Java. Mr. J. H. Gurney informs me {in ejiist.) that, having compared Latham's description 

 with the three Asiatic species of Poliofnis, he agrees with the late Mr. Strickland (and 

 consequently with Mr. G. E. Gray, List B. Mus. p. 68, 1848) in identifying it with F. ])olio(jenys, 

 Temra. " Latham's description agrees in all respects," continues Mr. Gurney, " except that he 

 speaks of five transverse bars on the tail, and I have not seen more than four, and in one 

 specimen only three." My Celebean and Gilolo examples only possess three bars. But in 

 the 'Fauna Japonica' Professor Schlegel states that this species has four ox five caudal bands. 



Mr. Blyth tells me that he considers his B. jiyf/nice^is to be the same as F. poliogenys, 

 Temm., and that Mr. Eyton's description of Astur harhatus sufficiently applies to B. pygmoeus. 



Circus, Lacepede. 



28. Circus assimilis, Jardine & Selby, Illustr. Ornith. ii. pi. 51, jwy., "New Holland" 

 (1826) ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Circi, p. 9 ; Valkv. Nedeii. Ind. pi. 20. figs. 2, 3. 



Circus jardinii, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 141, "New South Wales;" Wallace, Ibis, 1SG8, 

 p. 19, adult. 



Hah. Celebes ( Wallace) ; Menado {imis. nostr.) ; Gorontalo {Forsfen) ; Macassar (*S'. Milller) ; xr. Z. S 

 New South Wales ( (?o?«W) ; Central Polynesia, if identical with C. approximans {Peale); Viti P- '^^• 

 Islands {Finsch and Hartlauh). 



Professor Schlegel {I. c.) mentions that the Macassar example in the Leyden Museum, 

 a female in first plumage, obtained by S. Milller, perfectly agrees with the figures of C. assimilis 

 as given by both Jardine and Selby and by Mr. Gould. But C. assimilis, J. & S., and 

 C. assimilis, J. & S. ap^id Gould (B. Austr. pi. 26), are two distinct species, both inhabiting 

 Australia, but with different ranges, C. assimilis, J. & S., being the young bird of C. jardinii, 

 Gould, pi. 27, and C. assimilis,' J . & S. ajmd Gould, pi. 26, being a distinct species ranging into 

 New Zealand, but not occurring in South Australia, and named C. gouldi, Bp. Consp. p. 34, 

 ex Austr., and Eev. de Zool. 1850, p. 491, "de la Nouvelle Hollande." C. gouldi, Bp., was 

 described by its author {fide Schlegel, I. c.) from specimens in the Leyden Museum, " acquis 

 comme provenant de la Patagonie ; " and Professor Schlegel identifies them with C. macropterus, 

 Vieill. Mr. J. H. Gurney is of opinion that they are not C. macropterus, that the types came 

 from Australia, as twice over stated by Prince Bonaparte, and not from South America, and 

 that they are identical with C. assimilis, J. & S. ajmd Gould, nee J. & S. C. assimilis, J. & S., 

 = C. jardinii, Gould, Mr. Gurney informs me, has alone been obtained in Celebes. C. wolfi, 



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