470 Notes on Mr. R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 
Mr. Sharpe describes B. erythrothorax as having a “ black 
head and dark cinereous ear-coverts.” Nos. 2 and 3 in the 
foregoing list agree with this description ; but in Nos. 1 and 
4 the fore part of the crown of the head is rufous, with a 
blackish-brown shaft-mark to each feather, and the ear- 
coverts are rufous rather than cinereous. 
Mr. Sharpe figures, on plate 10 of his volume, both B. 
erythrothorae and B. magnirostris* : and I believe he is cor- 
rect in considering these nearly allied races specifically 
distinct, the first being limited to the Celebes and Sula 
groups, and the second to the Philippine Islands, unless 
Professor Schlegel be correct in referring to B. magnirostris 
a Baza brought by Diard from Pontianak, in Western 
Borneo, which is figured in the ‘ Valk-Vogels,’ pl. 28. fig. 5, 
and as to which Professor Schlegel remarks, under the head 
of Baza magnirostris, in his Supplement to the ‘ Museum des 
Pays-Bas,’ Accipitres, p. 135, “‘ Je rapporte notre individu 
de Borneo a ceux des Philippines.” Judging from the figure 
in the ‘ Valk-Vogels,’ I think it not impossible that this 
Bornean specimen may belong to a race nearly allied both to 
B. magnirostris and to B. erythrothorax, but not identical 
with either. 
Another race, closely allied to B. magnirostris, but, I think, 
specifically distinct, is Captain Legge’s very interesting Baza 
ceylonensis, which he has described at length in his work on 
the ‘ Birds of Ceylon,’ where it is also excellently figured. 
This species, which was discovered by Captain Legge subse- 
quently to the publication of Mr. Sharpe’s volume, has, as 
yet, only been met with in the island of Ceylon, with the 
exception of a single immature specimen procured by Mr. 
Hume from the Wynaad district of South-eastern India, and 
recorded in ‘Stray Feathers,’ vol. vii. p. 151, and vol. vil. 
p. 445. 
Mr. Sharpe, on pl. 11 of his Catalogue, gives a figure of an 
* Mr. Sharpe, in his list of synonyms of B.: magnirostris, includes 
“ Pernis madagascariensis, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 77;” but the word 
“madagascariensis ’’ is here inserted by an oversight, as the specific name 
used by Kaup is “ erasstrostris.” 
