﻿Birds 
  in 
  the 
  Norivich 
  Museum. 
  349 
  

  

  synonym 
  of 
  Urospizias 
  approximans 
  (' 
  List 
  of 
  D. 
  B. 
  of 
  Prey/ 
  

   p. 
  38), 
  though 
  GoukFs 
  plate 
  is 
  more 
  like 
  U. 
  torquata, 
  but 
  

   Mr. 
  Ramsay 
  tells 
  me 
  the 
  colouring 
  of 
  the 
  plate 
  is 
  misleading, 
  

   Mr. 
  W, 
  Burton, 
  who 
  obtained 
  what 
  he 
  considers 
  to 
  be 
  Astiir 
  

   cruentus 
  in 
  North-west 
  Australia, 
  says 
  it 
  is 
  much 
  larger 
  than 
  

   U. 
  torquata, 
  in 
  support 
  of 
  which 
  statement 
  he 
  has 
  favoured 
  me 
  

   with 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  measurements 
  taken 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Mr, 
  Bower. 
  

   Mr. 
  Ramsay 
  has 
  received 
  authentic 
  specimens 
  from 
  Derby 
  

   (Tab. 
  List, 
  1888, 
  p. 
  1). 
  Mr. 
  Ramsay 
  gives 
  ''Port 
  Essington 
  

   to 
  Derby 
  and 
  inland 
  to 
  Kimberley 
  " 
  as 
  the 
  habitat 
  in 
  the 
  

   supplement 
  to 
  'The 
  Australian 
  Accipitres,^ 
  1890, 
  p. 
  5. 
  He 
  

   also 
  refers 
  to 
  the 
  subject 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  Linn. 
  Soc. 
  

   ofN. 
  S. 
  W. 
  (iii. 
  p. 
  174). 
  As 
  recently 
  as 
  August 
  1892 
  he 
  

   writes 
  that 
  he 
  is 
  convinced 
  that 
  A. 
  cruentus 
  is 
  a 
  distinct 
  

   species, 
  but 
  adds 
  that 
  it 
  should 
  be 
  compared 
  closely 
  with 
  the 
  

   Timor 
  bird. 
  We 
  have 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  an 
  example 
  from 
  the 
  

   Swan 
  River 
  of 
  a 
  Urospizias 
  which, 
  from 
  the 
  redness 
  of 
  its 
  

   underparts, 
  my 
  father 
  thought 
  might 
  be 
  Gould's 
  U. 
  cruenta, 
  

   but 
  until 
  we 
  get 
  more 
  specimens 
  Astur 
  cruentus 
  must 
  rank 
  

   among 
  our 
  desiderata. 
  

  

  Seven 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Urospizias 
  have 
  been 
  described 
  since 
  

   my 
  father's 
  ' 
  List 
  ' 
  was 
  published, 
  not 
  counting 
  U. 
  sharpii, 
  

   Ramsay, 
  making 
  this 
  the 
  largest 
  genus 
  of 
  the 
  subfamily 
  

   Accipitrince, 
  which 
  in 
  his 
  arrangement 
  includes 
  fourteen 
  

   genera 
  and 
  two 
  subgenera. 
  

  

  Of 
  Astur 
  hensti, 
  Schlegel, 
  we 
  have 
  a 
  very 
  good 
  example, 
  

   obtained 
  in 
  Madagascar 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Wills, 
  but 
  none 
  of 
  ^. 
  moreli, 
  

   Pollen, 
  and 
  none 
  of 
  A. 
  candidissimus, 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  pale 
  race 
  of 
  

   A. 
  palumbarius 
  existing 
  in 
  Kamtschatka. 
  Its 
  describer, 
  

   Dybowski, 
  calls 
  it 
  " 
  une 
  forme 
  particulifere.'' 
  The 
  following 
  

   are 
  mentioned 
  in 
  Menzbier's 
  * 
  Orn. 
  Geogr. 
  of 
  Russia 
  ' 
  as 
  

   subspecies 
  of 
  the 
  Goshawk 
  : 
  Astur 
  palumbarius 
  albidus, 
  A. 
  

   palumbarius 
  schevedoivi, 
  and 
  A. 
  palumbarius 
  buteoides. 
  The 
  

   first 
  of 
  these 
  my 
  father 
  considered 
  equal 
  to 
  A. 
  candidissimus, 
  

   concerning 
  which 
  he 
  remarks 
  that 
  a 
  specimen 
  in 
  the 
  Natural 
  

   History 
  Museum 
  " 
  seemed 
  only 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  very 
  old 
  male 
  A. 
  pa- 
  

   lumbarius," 
  while 
  to 
  A. 
  palumbarius 
  schevedoivi 
  he 
  would 
  

   assign 
  the 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Ural 
  Mountains 
  recorded 
  by 
  

   him 
  in 
  ' 
  The 
  Ibis 
  ' 
  for 
  1875, 
  p. 
  354. 
  

  

  