Mr. R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 211 
ww 
with a specimen from the last-named island, and will there- 
fore only refer to those that have been obtained in Java, 
Borneo, and Sumatra. 
Mr. Sharpe, referring to specimens from Java, writes thus, 
“ixamples from the latter locality in the Leiden Museum 
appeared to me to be inseparable from Indian birds, but had 
enormous crests;” and he describes one of the Java specimens 
in the Museum as “changing from the tawny plumage to 
that of the adult with the grey face; it has ... a black crest 
3°7 inches long.” 
Professor Schlegel figures, on plates 25 and 26 of his ‘ Valk- 
Vogels, six Javan specimems of P. ptilorhynchus, of which 
that represented by figure 1 of pl. 25 is (if [mistake not) the 
specimen referred to in Mr. Sharpe’s description which I have 
just quoted; it is remarkable not only for the length of the 
crest, but also for the very bright rufous of the upper breast 
and throat, the same colour being equally conspicuous on the 
underparts of another Javan specimen, figure 2 on the same 
plate: if the rufous tints in these two figures have not been 
exaggerated by the colourist, they exceed in brightness those 
of any other examples with which I am acquainted. 
An immature specimen in the Norwich museum from the 
neighbourhood of Batavia is of a much less bright rufous on 
the underparts than the two figures above referred to, and is 
destitute of any crest. 
Three crestless Javan examples are also represented by Pro- 
fessor Schlegel (pl. 25. fig. 3, and pl. 26. figs. 1 & 2); they are in 
different stages of plumage, and do not appear to differ from 
the corresponding phases of coloration in Indian specimens. 
Figure 3 of pl. 26 represents an adult bird, like the grey- 
headed uniform adults which are frequently met with in 
India, and possess a fully developed black crest. 
I may add that in an adult Javan specimen in the Derby 
Museum at Liverpool the crest measures only 1:1 inch in 
length, showing that in Java, as elsewhere, the length of the 
crest 1s a very variable feature. 
The only example of this species which I have seen from 
Borneo was obtained at Bandahan, in that island, and is in 
