Mr. R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 465 
by Milne-Edwards and Grandidier, with figures of the bird, 
its skeleton, and details of its osteology*. 
I may also mention that a female in the Norwich Mu- 
seum, which is probably not fully adult, shows on the upper 
part of the tail three distinct cross bars of pure white, 
differimg, in this respect, from the specimens described by 
Mr. Sharpe. 
Baza subcristata is the next species which I have to notice ; 
and with respect toit I have only to remark that Mr. Sharpe 
gives the habitat of this species as “ North Australia,” but 
that Mr. E. P. Ramsay, in his ‘Catalogue of Australian Ac- 
cipitres,’ p. 47, defines its range, more precisely, as extending 
over “the whole of the north-eastern portion of Australia, 
from Cape York to the Clarence River,” from which I infer 
that it has not been obtained in the western parts of Northern 
Australia. 
Mr. Ramsay describes the colour of the iis, which is not 
mentioned by Mr. Sharpe, as ‘ bright yellow.” 
The next species, found to the northward, Baza reinwardtt, 
is a native of New Guinea and of several of the neighbouring 
islands, its range extending eastward to the Solomon group f, 
and westward to the islands of Timor and Bouru; a list of 
the localities in which it has been obtained will be found 
in Count Salvadori’s ‘ Prodromus Ornithologie Papuasiz et 
Moluccarum,’ p. 4; but to this list the island of Timor should 
be added, as specimens obtained by Mr. Wallace in that island 
are preserved in the British Museum{, and recorded in 
‘The Ibis’ for 1868, p. 18; there should also be added to 
* Vide ‘Hist. Nat. des Oiseaux de Madagascar,’ vol. ii. pls. 19, 20, 
and 21. 
+ “This group marks the farthest limit of many of the peculiar animal 
forms of New Guinea” (vide ‘ Australasia, edited by A. R. Wallace, 
p. 471). 
{ The Norwich Museum contains two specimens of Baza reinwardtr 
which were purchased from the “ Maison Verreaux,” and marked by the 
late M. Jules Verreaux as having been obtained in Borneo, I think it 
probable, however, that this is an error, as I know no instance of this 
species haying been recorded as a native of that island. 
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