276 Mr. J. H. Gurncy's Notes on 



species, S. circumcinctus, of which, so far as I am aware, 

 nothing is known beyond what is contained in Mr. Sharpens 

 article on this species and in that by Dr. Sclater in ' The 

 Ibis ' for 1862, p. 23, the latter also embodying Dr. Kaup^s 

 original description contained in the P. Z. S. for 1851, p. 43. 

 Dr. Kaup there mentions that the type specimen was obtained 

 by Mr. Bridges in Chili ; and if this was really so, Mr. Sharpe 

 is not quite accurate in stating that the species is " confined to 

 the Argentine Republic,'''' though it is recorded from thence 

 by Professor Burmeister, as cited in Dr. Sclater^s article 

 above referred to; and Messrs. Salvin and Godman^s speci- 

 men, of which Mr, Sharpe gives the description and measure- 

 ments, was also obtained in that Republic, its locality being 

 Mendoza ; I may add that this specimen was marked by 

 the collector as a female. 



Dr. Kaup in describing the type specimen speaks of it as 

 belonging to a subgenus characterized, inter alia, by the 

 possession of " two slender indistinct teeth ; " but an excel- 

 lent life-size drawing of the type specimen by Mr. Wolf, 

 which is in my possession and which was the original of the 

 figure contained in ' The Ibis ' for 1862, though it shows two 

 somewhat indistinctly marked festoons on the side of the 

 mandible, represents them as very obtuse, and by no means 

 corresponding with Dr. Kaup's epithet of " slender.^' I 

 may add that the specimen in the collection of Messrs. 

 Salvin and Godman possesses but one such festoon on the 

 tomium, and that by no means strongly marked, and hardly 

 meriting the designation of a tooth. 



As regards the New-Zealand genus Harpa and the Austra- 

 lian Hieracidea, to both which it may be most convenient 

 here to refer, I can add nothing worthy of record to the 

 articles contained in Mr. Sharpens volume and to his remarks 

 on the birds of the former genus contained in ' The Ibis ' 

 for 1873, p. 327. It is much to be regretted that the New- 

 Zealand Hawks which reach this country very seldom have 

 the sex noted as ascertained by dissection. Such information 

 would be very serviceable in distinguishing between the two 

 species of the genus Harpa, as the males of the larger and 



