ihe results of Dr. Meyer's travels in the Malayan Avchipelago liave been so coDsiderable tliat I have 

 undertaken these notes on bis collections with a feeling of great interest and pleasure, and as Dr. Meyer 

 proposes to submit to me for examination all the specimens of such species as I am studying for my 

 'Catalogue of Birds' I hope to be able to furnish some future observations on the collections which have already 

 given the Dresden Museum such high distinction. 



Count Salvadori has conclusively shewn in bis paper on Papuan and Moluccan Birds of Frey that 

 some of my determinations in the first volume of the 'Catalogue' were erroneous: as, however, I followed in 

 great measure the identifications on the tickets of the specimens as labelled by Mr. Wallace and published 

 by him in the 'Ibis' for 1868 (p. 1), 1 connot altogether be lield responsible. The fact is that it will always 

 be very difficult to assign to each species the young of the varions Goshawks which swarm in the Malayan 

 Archipelago, and as it proved, the series in the hands of Mr. Wallace and myself was not sufficient to guide 

 US to those interesting and rather surprising identifications which Count Salvadori 's acumen led him to 

 make. I had the privilege last spring of going over with the Count during his visit to England the beauti- 

 ful series of skins collected in the last few years by the Italian travellers in New Guinea and the 

 further examination of Dr. Meyer's specimens enables me to confirm Count Salvadori's determinations 

 and to make the necessary correctious in my published work on the Birds of Frey. 



The coUection forwarded by Dr. Meyer consisted of thirty-nine specimens referable to eighteen 

 species. In the case of the Moluccan and Fapuan birds I give the lull synonymy, so as to bring the no- 

 menclature of the species up to date. 



I. A C C I P 1 T R E S. 



Farn. FALCONID^. 

 Subfam. ACCIPITRINiE. 



1. Astur poliocephalus. 



Accipiter poliocephalus, Gratj, P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 170, 189: Sclater, Ibis, 1859, p. 276, 1860, p. 322, pl. X: 

 Bosenb. Nat. Tidschr. Nederl. Ind. XXV, p. 228 (1863): id. J. f. 0. 1864, p. 115: Kaup, P. Z. S. 

 1867, p. 177: Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 12 (pt.): Gray, Handl. B. I. p. 34 (1869): Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civic. Genov. VII, p. 751, sp. 7 (1875). 



