collected in Dutch jYeiv Guinea. 263 



*Ast"iir torquatus. 



Astur torquatus (Teinm.) ; Sharpe, (Jat. i, p. 125 (1874) ; 

 van Oort, Notes, xxxii. p. 79 (1910). 



A male Goshawk from Merauke has been referred to this 

 species found in Timor. 



Accipiter papuanus. 



Accipiter sp., Ogilvie-Urant, P. & P. p. 292 (1912) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1913, p. 103. 



Astur cirrliocephalus papuanus Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. 

 p. 482 (1913) ; xxii. p. 55 (1915). 



a. S imm. Mouth of the Mimika River, 12th Dec. 1910. 

 [No. 120, C.H.B.G.] 



The British Museum contains an adult female of this 

 distinct species of Sparrow-Hawk. Though allied to A. cir- 

 rhocephalus from Australia, both the adult and the young 

 differ very much in plumage. 



The differences in colour and markings between the adults 

 of this species and A. cirrliocephalus have already been 

 pointed out, but no mention has been made of any difference 

 in size, though the New Guinea species is very considerably 

 smaller^ as will be seen by the table of measurements given 

 below. 



In the young of A. cirrhocephalus the underparts including 

 the breast, belly, and thighs are broadly barred with reddish- 

 brown, only the throat and fore-neck are longitudinally 

 streaked or spotted along the shafts, while the chest-feathers 

 are rather heavily blotched and barred with brown. 



In the young of A. papuanus the underparts are streaked 

 with reddish-brown, some of the outer fiank-feathers only 

 being barred on the outer web. 



Accipiter papuanus. 

 Specimens in the British Museum. 



Wine:. 



Wing. 



mm. 



cJ . imm. Mimikii ........ 188 



[ c7 ] imm. Ant Islands] ' . . 1 77. 



mm. 



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