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 73. Baza subcristata reinwardti (Mi'ill & Schleg.). 



((;f. Nov. ZooL. 101 II. ]). a:'.).) 



Toeal, two specimens. 



?, Gorom, Manawoka, 14. .\i. LS99. (Kuhn coll., No. 1763.) 



74. Astur albiventris (Salvad.) 



Vnii'phias «?i(CP«(Ws Salvadori, Ann. ,!/«.<. Cit: Gen. vii. p. 983. 187.5 (Key Islands; ///;>«»■ Weri, 

 Great Key). 



4 cJ ad., 4 ? ad., ^J juv., Toeal, Oelioer, Oen, and Ohoitil, Little Key. 

 (Kiihn coll., Nos. 183, 251, 209, 3(il, 3(i1a, 412, 524, 574, 824 ; ('apt. Webster coll., 

 No. 47.) 



" Iris orange of various shades in the adnlr, suli)hur-3'ellow in the young ; feet 

 oehreous ; bill black.'' (H. Ktlhn.) 



(S ? ad., Manggoer Island, 8. x. 1879. 



cJ, "Iris golden yellow"; ? , " Iris red-orange, nearly red." (Kiihn coll., 

 Nos. 1413, 1414.) 



Wliile the Key birds are very constant among themselves, these two Manggoer 

 birds differ somewhat. Their wings are about A cm. longer ; the male has distinct 

 bars on the inner rectrices, of which hardly a trace is ever found in typical 

 albiventris, but the female has no such bars. The 7)10.16 is distinctly, the female 

 scarcely, darker above. They are not at all like sistur polionot/is (Salvad.), which 

 is still darker above, has a very wide collar, always distinct bars to the central 

 rectrices, and the female of which is always brighter and narrowly barred on 

 the underside. More material may perhaps show that the Manggoer form is 

 separable, but at present it cannot be separated from the one pair before me. 



In the Key Islands specimens the reddish collar on the npperside is well 

 visible in the males, but only faintly indicated or absent in the females. 



75. Astur meyerianus Sharpe. 



As(ur meyerianus Sharpe, Journ. L'mti. Soc. London xiii. p. 458. PI. XXII. (Jobi). 



Mr. Kiihn obtained a bird marked " S " on Maar, Ceram-laut, on December 17th, 

 1899. He marked tlie iris as chromeous, feet sulphureous, bill slate-grey. 



This bird, which I believe to be fully adult, agrees j>erfectly with Dr. Sharpe's 

 descri]ition oi Astur mei/criaiius, except that it is more distinctly, though not quite 

 regnlarly, barred with black all over the breast and abdomen. The black shafts on 

 the underside are very conspicuous. The feathers on the sides of the neck are black 

 with white lips, the under wing-coverts white with black shafts, and some with 

 black bars. The feathers on the hindneck have snow-white bases, those on the 

 head and back brownish grey ones. The tail is above black with a dirty white tip, 

 as in the tyj)e. There is apparently nothing in which this specimen differs from the 

 tyjie of .1. meyerianus, except the somewhat greater amount of black barring on tiie 

 under surface. The measurements agree wonderfully with those of the type, as 

 given by Ur. Sharpe. Whether the Jobi example and this are entirely the same 

 cannot be decided from these two single individuals. I do not understand what it 

 has to do with A. alhigularis from the Solomons, of which even f\\e female is about 

 one-third smaller, and which differs in many colour details. If Mr. Kiihn sexed 

 the bird correctly, thu female mnst be expected to be of the size of the European 

 goshawk, while that of A. albigularis is not bigger than that of Accipiter pisua, 

 though it is an Astur, with large bill and shorter and stronger feet. 



