﻿Birds 
  in 
  the 
  Norivich 
  Museum. 
  347 
  

  

  and 
  other 
  islands 
  in 
  the 
  Philippines. 
  Of 
  M. 
  latifrotis, 
  Sharpe, 
  

   first 
  discriminated 
  by 
  my 
  father, 
  we 
  have 
  one 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  killed 
  in 
  the 
  Nicobar 
  Islands, 
  and 
  two 
  from 
  Lawas 
  

   and 
  Sandakan 
  in 
  Borneo. 
  

  

  Henicopernis 
  infuscata, 
  Gurney, 
  ought 
  not 
  to 
  find 
  a 
  place 
  

   among 
  the 
  desiderata 
  at 
  Norwich, 
  for 
  the 
  type 
  collected 
  by 
  

   Lieut. 
  Richards 
  in 
  New 
  Britain, 
  July 
  9th, 
  1879, 
  was 
  given 
  to 
  

   the 
  Museum 
  by 
  Canon 
  Tristram 
  in 
  1890. 
  It 
  was, 
  however, 
  

   unaccountably 
  lost. 
  It 
  is 
  believed 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  sent 
  by 
  mistake 
  

   along 
  with 
  some 
  of 
  my 
  father's 
  birds 
  from 
  Natal 
  to 
  the 
  Natural 
  

   History 
  Museum 
  at 
  South 
  Kensington, 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  some- 
  

   where 
  among 
  the 
  thousands 
  of 
  bird-skins 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  

   Collection. 
  It 
  is 
  much 
  darker 
  than 
  H. 
  longicauda 
  (Garnot) 
  

   of 
  New 
  Guinea, 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  Museum 
  has 
  five 
  specimens, 
  

   two 
  of 
  them 
  obtained 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Wallace, 
  in 
  Mysol 
  and 
  Dorey. 
  

   The 
  fellow-specimen 
  of 
  H. 
  infuscata, 
  which 
  Mr. 
  Layard 
  gave 
  

   to 
  Canon 
  Tristram 
  afterwards, 
  is 
  at 
  Durham 
  still. 
  

  

  In 
  'The 
  Ibis' 
  for 
  1891, 
  p. 
  305, 
  Dr. 
  Steere 
  has 
  described, 
  

   or 
  restated 
  the 
  description 
  of, 
  a 
  new 
  Harrier 
  to 
  be 
  called 
  

   Circus 
  phiUjypensis, 
  but 
  does 
  not 
  say 
  wherein 
  it 
  differs 
  from 
  

   C 
  melanoleucuSj 
  the 
  plumages 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  given 
  at 
  length 
  

   by 
  my 
  father 
  (Ibis, 
  1875, 
  pp. 
  225-8) 
  . 
  If 
  C.philippensis 
  stands^ 
  

   a 
  specimen 
  is 
  desirable 
  ; 
  but 
  Mr. 
  Everett 
  doubts 
  its 
  validity. 
  

   To 
  Mr. 
  Everett 
  my 
  father 
  was 
  indebted 
  for 
  eight 
  examples 
  

   of 
  Circus 
  spilonotus 
  from 
  Borneo 
  collected 
  at 
  Papar 
  and 
  

   Labuan, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  an 
  adult 
  male^ 
  which 
  

   he 
  obtained 
  from 
  Gould, 
  killed 
  near 
  Manilla 
  in 
  the 
  Philip- 
  

   pines. 
  We 
  have 
  four 
  specimens 
  of 
  Swinhoe's 
  from 
  Amoy 
  and 
  

   Formosa, 
  a 
  young 
  male 
  collected 
  by 
  Severtzoff 
  in 
  Turkestan, 
  

   and 
  a 
  female 
  nearly 
  adult 
  from 
  Japan. 
  The 
  sexes 
  are 
  alike 
  

   (Ibis, 
  1889, 
  p. 
  256). 
  

  

  Other 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Circus 
  are 
  well 
  represented 
  in 
  

   the 
  Museum, 
  but 
  of 
  C. 
  maillardi 
  (Verreaux), 
  the 
  Bourbon 
  

   Harrier, 
  we 
  have 
  no 
  adult. 
  The 
  series 
  of 
  C. 
  macrosceles, 
  

   Newton, 
  having 
  been 
  considerably 
  increased 
  since 
  the 
  ' 
  List 
  ' 
  

   was 
  published, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  worth 
  giving 
  an 
  enumeration 
  of 
  

   them. 
  

  

  