Miscellaneous. 485 



LX. — On a new Sparrow- Hawk from Madeira. 

 By K. Bowdler Shakpe, F.L.S. &c. 



My colleague Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant has just returned from 

 a three weeks' trip to Madeira, and amongst many interesting 

 species of birds obtained during his residence on the island was 

 a female Sparrow-Hawk which turns out to be a most inter- 

 esting insular form of A. ?visus, quite sufficiently charac- 

 terized to deserve a specific name. I therefore call it after my 

 energetic friend and colleague 



Accipiter Granti, sp. n. 

 $ ad. similis A. nisi $, sed ubique saturatior, supra schistaceo- 



nigricans ; subtus late et regulariter nigro fasciatus ; tibiis, subala- 



ribus et axillaribus late nigro fasciatis. 

 Long. tot. 15*5, culm. 0-75, ate 8*7, caudae 6*9, tarsi 2-3. 



Although the comparative diagnosis given above would 

 make it appear that the similarity of this new Sparrow-Hawk 

 to the common species of Europe is very marked, the differ- 

 ences between them are really very pronounced, and when, as 

 I hope it will do shortly, a figure of the Madeira species 

 appears in the l Ibis,' it will be seen that a very interesting 

 Accipitrine bird has been added to our list of species of the 

 Western Palajarctic Region. The Madeira bird is in fact 

 very closely allied to Accipiter madac/ascariensis, but it 

 possesses a well-marked chestnut tuft of plumes on the flanks, 

 which shows that its real affinities are with A. nisus, as this 

 character is always wanting in the Madagascar bird. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



British Fossil Crinoids. By F. A. Bather, M.A., E.U.S. 



IT. The Classification of die Inadunata Fistulata 

 (continued from p. 388). 



Corrigenda. 

 There are a few unfortunate errors and obscurities in the earlier 

 portion of this paper ; though they do not affect the argument, it is 

 best to correct them without delay. And at the same time I must thank 

 Dr. P. H. Carpenter for having kindly called my attention to them. 



P. 311, last line, for "excretion" read "the discharge of excrement." 

 " Excretion " in scientific language means " the discharge of a secre- 

 tion ; " excrement is not a secretion. 



P. 313, last line, for " Miller " read " Miiller." 



P. 315, line 3, for « B and C as Bight, D and E as Left " read " B and C 

 as Left, I) and E as Bight ; " I must apologize to Dr. Carpenter, and 

 indeed to my readers generally, for this very bothering slip. 



P. 315, second liny after Table, instead of "Chambered Organ" read 

 " plane separating the Stem from the Calyx." This plane is chosen 



