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dark rufous; and the interspaces on the axillaries are similarly 

 but less strongly tinged; the mantle is dark brown^ with 

 dull rufous edgings to the upper tail-coverts ; the rufous 

 nuchal collar is imperfect, being limited to the sides of the 

 nape. 



This New-Ireland specimen resembles that from Aneiteum, 

 and all those that I have examined from New Guinea, in 

 having the w4iite under tail-coverts transversely barred with 

 rufous ; but in two adult females from East Timor that are 

 preserved in the Norwich Museum, these coverts are an 

 immaculate white, with no cross bars ; and Mr. Seebohm, 

 who has been so good as to examine for me the specimens in 

 the British Museum, all of which are also from East Timor, 

 informs me that such is likewise the case in six out of the 

 seven specimens contained in that collection, but that in the 

 seventh, which is immature, the under tail-coverts are 

 barred. 



On the other hand. Count T. Salvadori, referring to this 

 species in his 'Prodromus' (p. 7, note), wrote thus, '' Speci- 

 mina in Nova Guinea meridionali collecta cum speciminibus 

 Timoriensibus .... omnino conveniunt,^^ a statement which 

 he subsequently confirmed in 'The Ibis"" for 1879, p. 319. 



Professor Schlegel, in his 'Museum des Pays-Bas/ As- 

 tures, p. 39, speaks of this species as having, when adult, 

 *' couverturcs inferieures de la queue blanches ; dessous de 

 I'oiseau depuis la gorge jusqu'a Fanus d'un blauchatre tra- 

 verse par de nombreuses bandes etroites d^un roux T^kXe," and 

 enumerates the following adult specimens as then existing in 

 the Leyden Museum — viz. one from Sumbawa, two from 

 Timor, and two from Samao, near to Timor. 



Of these specimens the Professor figures on pi. 17 of his 

 * Valk-vogels ^ two adults, viz. No. 1, a male from Samao, 

 and No. 3, a male from Sumbawa^, in both of which the 

 under tail-coverts are white, and apparently quite free from 

 bars ; but figure No. 2, on the same plate, represents a female 



* Mr. Sharpe, in liis Catalogue of Accipitres, p. 104, refers this speci- 

 men to JJ. st/lvestris (Wallace), which, from the locality, seems to be a 

 very probable identification. 



