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This specimen was compared by Count Salvador! with thc typical example obtained by Beccari 

 and lie considers it to be the young bird ot' ^4. misoriensis and not of A. j^oliocephahis, to wliicli I was 

 inclined to refer it. The following is a description of the specimen. 



Young female. General coloiir above ashy brown, the feathers of the head, mantle, and the wing- 

 coverts margined with pale rufous, the sides of the hiuder neck rnsty red, forming a sort of iudistinct half 

 collar: scapulars grey like the back, with a good deal of white at the base of the feathers, which is very 

 conspicuous when the feathers are disarranged: primary - coverts and quills nearly uniform dark brown, 

 the secondaries with pale rufescent edges, plainer at the tips of the feathers: tail dark ashy brown with 

 obsolete cross-bands of darker brown, all the feathers tipped with pale rufous: the inner webs of nearly 

 all the tail-feathers pale rust}^, the cross-bars of dark brown very distinct and about ten in number: ear- 

 coverts ashy grey, streaked with rufous: above the eye a rufous ej^ebrow streaked with dark brown: cheeks 

 buffy white washed with rufous and streaked with dark brown: under surface of body creamy white, in- 

 clining to fulvous on the lower flanks and abdomen, nearly every feather with a distinct blackish brown 

 shaft line, on each side of which is a rufous shade, imparting a rufous finge to the breast: thighs uniform 

 dull viuous buff: under wing-coverts uniform buff: axillaries barred with vinous and buff: quills ashy brown 

 below, with pale salmon rufous inner webs, barred with dark ashy brown. 



Astur misoriensis is a small form of ..4. etorques, and is of a more delicate grey. The type speci- 

 men, measured by nie during Count Salvadori's visit, gave the following: 



Long. tot. 310 mm. culmen 24. alaj 188, caudse 144, tarsi 48. 



5. Astur meyerianus, Sharpc, Jnum. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. pl. XXII. 



This species was discovered in the Island of Jobi by Dr. Meyer and named after him by me. Count 

 Salvadori thinks it may be thc female of .cl. albigidaris, Gray, from the Solomon Islands, but in addition to 

 the larger size it has the cheeks white streaked with black, whereas in A. albigidaris they were entirely 

 black. The following is my diagnoosis of Astur meyerianus : 



Niger: subtus albus: similis A. albigulari sed major et genis albis nigro striolatis distinguendus. 

 Long. tot. 510mm. alas 315, caudse 205, tarsi 72. In addition to its larger size and white cheeks, the Jobi 

 bird is slightly varied with black shaft-streaks and wavy cross-bars of blackish: bat whether these are 

 signs of youth or indications of specific characters, I am unable to determine. 



6. Accix>iter cirrhocephalus. 



Accipiter cirrhocephalus (V.): Sharpe, Cat. B. i, p. 141: id. Jonm. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 488: Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Civic. Genov. XII. p. 39 (1878). 

 a. Ansus, Jobi, April 1873. Long. tot. 233mm, alse 177, caudse 135, tarsi 51. 



The first recorded occurrence of this species away from Australia and in the limits of the Austro- 

 Malaj'an sub-region was that of a young bird in Mr. 0. C. S tone's coUection from Port Moresby. Mr. Petterd, 

 who prepared the skin identified the specimen as belonging to the Australian Sparrow-hawk, but I hesitated 

 to do so on the strength of an immature bird. In his list of Papuan Accipitres, however, Salvadori enum- 

 merates specimens from Mansinam, a small island N. W. of New Guinea, and from Salvvatti and the present 

 bird of Dr. Meyer's, though rather lüclily coloured, appears to belong to the Australian species, which 

 has therefore a more extended ränge than was supposed. Count Salvadori compared the specimen with 

 me, so as to leave no doubt as to its identity. 



The following is a list of the Goshawks now known to inhabit the Malayan Archipelago and 

 enummerated by Count Salvadori in his 'Prodromus' of the Accipitres (Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. XII, p. 32). 

 I am Borry to see that my attempt to simplify the nomenclature in the case of these Birds of Prey has 

 not beeu very successful, but I shall still endeavour in my writings to assert the principle that structure 



