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



having a longer wing-measure, viz. 4"87. The measurements 

 of the male and female which Mr. Everett obtained for Lord 

 Tweeddale at Zamboanga, in Mindanao, have unfortunately 

 not been recorded. 



With regard to the most abundant species of the genus 

 Microhierax, M. fringillarius , I have nothing to add to the 

 information contained in Mr. Sharpe's work; and the same 

 remark applies to the remaining species there mentioned, the 

 very rare M. melanoleucus . But I may briefly allude to two 

 additional species of the genus which have been made known 

 to science subsequently to the publication of Mr. Sharpe's 

 volume. One of these, a native of China, has been described 

 by Mr. Sharpe in ' The Ibis,' for 1875, p. 254, under the 

 title of M. sinensis, and in the work of Messrs. David and 

 Oustalet on the birds of China, where it is also figured, under 

 that of M. chinensis. At p. 31 of the latter work M. David 

 mentions three specimens obtained by himself in the province 

 of Kiangsi, and a fourth which had been previously procured 

 by M. Heude in the neighbourhood of Nankin. These are 

 the only examples of this species of which I have heard. 



The second new species, M. latifrons, was described by 

 Mr. Sharpe in ' The Ibis," for 1879, p. 237, where it is also 

 figured; this species is a native of Borneo, but, judging from 

 Bornean collections, would seem to be less abundant there 

 than its widely spread congener M.fringillarius. Mr. Whitely, 

 of Woolwich, well known as a dealer in ornithological speci- 

 mens, has also received two skins of this species from the 

 Nicobar Islands, one of which has passed into the collection 

 of Count Turati at Milan, and the other into that of the 

 Norwich Museum. Being desirous of ascertaining whether 

 these two examples had been really obtained in the Nicobars, 

 I wrote to Mr. Whitely on the subject, and was favoured by 

 him with the following reply : — " The person I receive the 

 birds from at the Nicobars has never been to Borneo; his 

 business lies between the Nicobars and the Andamans ; from 

 the Andamans he has not yet sent me any thing ; all I have 

 received came from the Nicobars. In the collection were 

 specimens of Caloenas nicobarica, Macropygia rufipennis, 



