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alone should determine generic cliaracters in birds, and tliat colour or eveu style of colovation can only be 

 of specific worth. All these small Goshawks ave stuucturally members of the genus Astur, and it seems to 

 me a fnndamentally wrong principle to admit seven subgcuera or genera for tliese birds, a certain style 

 of colour being their only claim to generic Separation. This is the view set forwavd by my able and 

 generous reviewer, Mr. Jolin Henry Gurney, who calls these Malayan Goshawks — 'short-toed Sparrow- 

 Hawks'; biit this is, to my mind, exactly what all Goshawks are, and were it not for their shorter toes 

 and stouter bills they would all be members of the genus Accipiter. 



List of Moluccan and Papuan Goshawks. 



1. A. trinotatus (Bp.). Hab. Ce\e\ns. 



2. A. henicogrammus, Gray, 1860. (Jia:). Hab. Gilolo . Morty Id. 



Astur niuelleri, Wallace, 186.5, (ad ). 



S.A. hiogaster, {S. Mall.). Hab. Amboina. Ceram. 



4. A. misoriensis, [Snlvad.j. Hab. Mysore Island. 



5. A. etorques, {Salvad.). Hab. New Guinea and Islands in the Bay of Geelvink. 



6. A. griseiceps, Seid. Hab. Celebcs. 



7. A. soloensis (Lath.). Hab. Celebes. Molucca Islands. New Guinea. 

 S.A. cuculoides. Hah. Celebes. 



9. A. poliocephalus (Gray). Hab. New Guinea. Aru Islands. Mj^sol. Jobi. New Ireland. 

 10. A. leucosonius, Sharpe. Hab. New Guinea. Lately received by the British Museum from Port 



Moresby, S. E. New Guinea, collected by Dr. Turner. 

 H.A. albig ularis, (Gray). Hab. Solomon Islands. 



12. A. meyerianus, Sharpe- Hab. Jobi. 



13. A. griseigularis, G^-ay. Hab. Batchian. Gilolo. Ternate. Morty. Obi. Guebch. 



14. A. albiventris (Salvad.) Hab. Ke Islands. 



1,5. A. torquatus, Temvi. Hab. New Guinea. Waigiou. 



16. A. melan ochlaniys (Salvad). Hab. N. W. New Guinea. 



Subfam. ßUTEONIN^E. 

 7. Harpyopsm nora' gtiinea'. (Plate XXIX.) 



Harpyopsis novfe guine«, Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov. VII, pp. 682, 805: id. sp. dt. IX, p. 10 (1876). 

 X, p. 117 (1877), XII, p. 36 (1878). 



a. ad. Andei, July 1873. 



This extraordinary bird has much of the appearance of a Serpent-Eagle, especially of Eutriorchis 

 of Madagascar, but on examining the structure of the tarsi, the plates at the back of the latter proclaim 

 Its Buzzard-like connections, and it is surprising how very closely allied the genus is to the Harpy 

 Eagles (Thrasaetus) of South America. The specific name , therefore, exactly illustrates its proper 

 Position. Besides the present specimen I also examined the type which was in Count Salvadori's hands 

 during bis visit to London and I drew up the following difterences between the genera Haipyopsis and 

 Thrasaetus. 



a. crest füll, rounded: difference between the length of wiug and tail not so great as 



the tarsus Harpyopsis. 



b. crest very large, the occipital plumes largest: the difference between the length of 



wing and tail greater than the tarsus Thrasaetus. 



The following is a description of Dr. Meyer's specimen. 



