312 Mr. J. H. Gurney’s Notes on 
has adopted this generic term for a series of “ Rails of the 
East Indies and Australia, with rather robust beak, more or 
less straight, and of the length of the head: below, either en- 
tively or in part, including the remiges and wing-coverts, 
black, with white cross bands: size equalling or exceeding a 
little that of R. aquaticus.’ Iam disposed to believe that 
this group is a natural one, although there are but slight 
structural characters to distinguish it from true Rallus. 
Schlegel assigns four species to Hypotenidia, arranged in 
two sections, as follows :— 
A. Whole body below with white cross bands ; upper sur- 
face and wings dark olive-brown; sides of head black, with a 
white line from the angle of the mouth to the neck. 
1. H. torquata (Linn.), of the Philippines. 
2. H. celebensis (Q. et G.), of Celebes. 
B. Lower surface below the neck with white cross bands ; 
upper surface, starting from the neck, with white spots or 
bands. 
3. H. philippensis (Linn.), of the Philippines, Celebes, Aus- 
tralia, New Caledonia, and the Pacific Islands. 
4. H. striata (Linn.), of India, China, Philippines, Java, &c. 
To these species we must now add H. sulcirostris and H. 
saturata, as above mentioned, and the fine new Hypotenidia 
insignis, which I have lately described from New Britain. 
HT, sulcirostris and H. saturata should succeed H. celebensis 
in Section A, while H. insignis will form a section per se 
next to section A, but differing in the absence of the white 
stripes on each side of the head. 
XXX.—Notes on a ‘Catalogue of the Accipitres in the 
British Museum’ by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By 
J. H. Gurney. 
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Mr. Suarre unites the genera Leptodon and Regerhinus, 
dropping, as regards the former, Cuvier’s earlier synonym of 
