﻿Dr. 
  R. 
  Bowdler 
  Sharpe 
  — 
  Bornean 
  Notes. 
  555 
  

  

  c". 
  Throat 
  white 
  or 
  buflf, 
  washed 
  slightly 
  with 
  

   rufous, 
  and 
  showing 
  a 
  distinct 
  central 
  

   streak. 
  

  

  c'". 
  Fore 
  neck 
  uniform 
  grey 
  magnirostrh, 
  p.5.j6. 
  

  

  d'". 
  Fore 
  neck 
  broadly 
  streaked, 
  with 
  tawny 
  

  

  bufl" 
  or 
  black. 
  

  

  a^. 
  Streaks 
  on 
  fore 
  neck 
  and 
  chest 
  black 
  ; 
  

  

  bands 
  on 
  flanks 
  deep 
  rufous 
  brown 
  ; 
  

  

  entire 
  under 
  surface 
  of 
  body 
  with 
  a 
  

  

  deep 
  tawny 
  tinge 
  borneensis, 
  p. 
  557. 
  

  

  6*. 
  Streaks 
  on 
  fore-neck 
  and 
  chest 
  pale 
  

  

  cinnamon 
  rufous 
  )jerd(mi, 
  p. 
  55/. 
  

  

  j 
  ceylonensis, 
  p. 
  556. 
  

  

  The 
  confusion 
  concerning 
  the 
  two 
  British-Museum 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  of 
  Baza 
  magnirostris 
  may 
  now 
  be 
  considered 
  as 
  dissi- 
  

   pated, 
  but 
  the 
  circumstances 
  require 
  some 
  explanation. 
  When 
  

   I 
  wrote 
  the 
  '' 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Birds 
  ' 
  I 
  followed 
  Gray's 
  published 
  

   'List 
  of 
  Accipitres/ 
  2nd 
  edition, 
  1848, 
  apparently 
  without 
  

   going 
  back 
  to 
  the 
  registers 
  — 
  a 
  somewhat 
  rash 
  proceeding, 
  as 
  I 
  

   have 
  learnt 
  from 
  subsequent 
  experience. 
  All 
  the 
  Accipitres 
  

   were 
  mounted 
  in 
  1872, 
  when 
  I 
  began 
  to 
  write 
  the 
  first 
  volume 
  

   of 
  the 
  ' 
  Catalogue,' 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  my 
  first 
  duties 
  was 
  to 
  

   unmount 
  and 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  skin-collection 
  all 
  specimens 
  

   of 
  historical 
  value, 
  in 
  which 
  case 
  the 
  information 
  on 
  the 
  

   stands 
  was 
  transferred 
  to 
  the 
  labels 
  on 
  the 
  skins 
  when 
  

   unmounted. 
  Thus 
  the 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  Baza 
  magnirostris, 
  

   entered 
  on 
  p. 
  41 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  List 
  of 
  Accipitres/ 
  were 
  transferred 
  

   to 
  the 
  skin-collection 
  and 
  catalogued 
  {op. 
  cit. 
  p. 
  356) 
  as 
  an 
  

   adult 
  male 
  and 
  young 
  female, 
  the 
  former 
  being 
  figured. 
  Soon 
  

   after 
  I 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  had 
  some 
  doubts 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  identification 
  

   of 
  the 
  female, 
  as 
  Colonel 
  Legge 
  states 
  that 
  I 
  informed 
  him 
  

   that 
  it 
  was 
  probably 
  Bazajerdoni, 
  when 
  he 
  wrote 
  his 
  work 
  

   on 
  the 
  ' 
  Birds 
  of 
  Ceylon.' 
  

  

  Having 
  now 
  to 
  go 
  into 
  the 
  whole 
  matter 
  again, 
  I 
  have 
  

   examined 
  the 
  original 
  register 
  of 
  Cuming's 
  collection, 
  and 
  

   I 
  find 
  that 
  in 
  February 
  1842 
  245 
  specimens 
  were 
  purchased 
  

   of 
  jNIr. 
  Cuming, 
  of 
  which 
  about 
  70 
  skins 
  were 
  from 
  Malacca 
  

   and 
  the 
  bulk 
  from 
  the 
  Philippines. 
  No. 
  121, 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  

   Baza 
  magnirostris, 
  is 
  registered 
  '' 
  June, 
  Island 
  of 
  Manilla, 
  

   South" 
  !! 
  Therefore, 
  although 
  no 
  one 
  has 
  since 
  discovered 
  

  

  