406 MR. R. B. SHARPS ON THE BIRDS OF NEW GITTKEA.. 



quills. Total length 20 inches, culmen 1"05, wing 12'8, tail 10*0, 

 tarsus 3'1. 



After carefully examining this curiously marked Hawk, I came 

 to the conclusion that it must be Megatriorchis Dorics of Salvadori 

 and D'Albertis ; and on applying to my friend Marquis Doria, he 

 very kindly sent me over the type of the latter bird for comparison. 

 I am confirmed in my opinion that in the bird described above 

 we have the first known example of the adult in any collection ; 

 and I now give a detailed description of the typical specimen of 

 M. Borice, which is apparently a young bird. 



Io«myye??iaZe (type of species). General colour above brown, 

 barred regularly across with lighter brown, the edges of the 

 feathers rather more rufous or fawn-coloured ; head brown, 

 streaked with rufous, the feathers edged with this colour, and 

 having creamy white bases ; the ear-coverts a broad eyebrow of 

 white feathers streaked with black ; a small crest of pointed 

 plumes ; nape-plumes white, with a rufous tinge, and mesially 

 streaked with black ; hind neck like the back, but more mottled 

 with black spade-shaped terminal spots to the feathers ; wing- 

 coverts ashy brown, tipped with fawn-colour, and broadly barred 

 across with darker brown ; quills ashy brown, broadly barred 

 across with blackish brown for their entire length, the interspaces 

 on the secondaries lighter, these quills being much paler tipped; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers ashy brown, tipped with 

 greyish, slightly tinged with rufous on the former, the tail- 

 feathers crossed with twelve bars of blackish brown ; sides of 

 face and ear-coverts white, the feathers mesially streaked with 

 dark brown, the ear-coverts tipped with blackish brown, forming 

 a distinct patch ; under surface of body creamy white, streaked 

 with dark brown, very narrowly on the throat, broader on the 

 abdomen and lower breast, the thighs and under tail-coverts with 

 nearly obsolete mesial streaks ; fore neck and breast broadly 

 streaked with light rufous, browner on the former, the breast- 

 feathers with a shaft-streak of dark brown ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white, with a dark brown shaft-streak ; quills ashy 

 below, white near the base, barred with dark brown, the bars 

 about nine in number ; " bill black, the cere and eyelids ash- 

 colour ; feet whitish grey ; iris chestnut-brown " (D^Albertis). 

 Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 1"7, wing 13'7, tail 12*8, tarsus 

 3*4. {Mus. Genueiisi.) 



Hah. Monte Epe, S.E. New Guinea. 



