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Pli^/llergates everetfi dumasi) mostly of Iiido-Malayan affinities, and prove again 

 the existence of a formerl y unknown Indo-Malayau element on the high monutains 

 of the 'Mdlnecas, which 1 lueutimieil as being found on Burn in Novitates Zoo- 



LOGICAE VII. I'JIIU. pp. 2-J(i, -^'oS, -jaO. 



The lowlands of the various Blolnccan islands are now more or less well 

 known, bnt it is in the higher inonntains that ornithologists can still make 

 interesting discoveries, and I hope tn be alile to record some more before long. 



1. Spizaetus gurneyi ((iray). 



Aqinla {llelcrnj.iisf) iiuriirtf, G.n.Qv3.y, 1'. Z. N. 18G0. p, .S42. PI. lliO (-'Batjaii ").* 



Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, Platen. 



'i. Cuncuma leucogaster (Gm.). 

 This widespread species occurs on the coasts of all the Molnccan islands, and 

 has been recorded from Batjan liy AVallace. 



3. Pandion haliaetus leucocephalus Gonld. 

 Batjan : Bernstein, Platen. 



4. Haliastur indus girrenera (VieilL). 



Batjan : Bernstein, Wallace, Kiikenthal. 

 (Mr. Uumas obtained it also on Morty). 



5. Baza subcristata rufa fSchleg. 



(Cf. Niiv. ZiK.i.. VIII. p. 379). 



S, Batjan, August 1897, W. Doherty coll. Batjan : Bernstein, Wallace. 



li. Tinnunculus moluccensis Bj). 



Batjan : Bernstein, Wallace, Platen, Kiikentiial, Gnillemard, Vorderman. 

 Batjan : Doherty, Waterstradt, in Tring Mnseum. 



" Iris yellow, feet ochreons, claws black, bill leaden-blue with black tip." 

 S ad., Doherty. 



(Morty: Bernstein; Dnmas, in Mus. Tring.) 



T. Astur henicogrammus Giay. 



Astiir heiiicoi/i'd III into. Gray, J'. Z. S. 18GU. p. 343 (■' Gilolo") (juv.). 

 Astur miielkii Wallace, /'. Z. 8. 1865. p. 475 ("Gilolo") (adult). 



Batjan : Platen (4 juv.). Batjan : ? juv. in Mus. Tring, collected by 

 Waterstradt's natives. 



This species is, of course, utterly diH'erent from .1. r//7Ww//</((r(.s, being much 

 smaller, deep bluisli slate above, \^ithont a rufous collar, and having a totally 

 different yoang, barred also on tt lirer i,. 



* Tliere is in the British Mw am a ■ij^cimen labclkil " Waigiu," inarkeil as tlie type utthe .spcciei;. 

 This caiinfjt I'C correct. The biru vas described from Batjan, and no birds from Waigiii bad at that lime 

 reached England. The so-called tvpes of Mr. Wallace were evidently marked as the t.vpes lunf; after they 

 were described, but not at the time when described Ijv Gray. They are not, tlierclore, absolutely reliable. 



