collected in Dutch New Guinea. 265 



Those who unite the Sparrow-Hawks with the Goshawks 

 under Astur are surely very wrong in doing so. The marked 

 differences in the comparative length and proportions of the 

 toes in the two groups has been so clearly pointed out by 

 Sharpe in the ' Catalogue o£ the Birds in the British 

 Museum,' i. pp. 93 & 130 (1874), that there should be no 

 difficulty in deciding to which group, Astur or Accipiter, any 

 species may belong {cf. text-fig. 3). 



Harpyopsis novseguineae. 



Harpy opsis novce-guinece Salvad. ; Sharpe, Mitth. Zool. 

 Mus. Dresden, 1878, p. 355, pi. 2^ ; Salvad. 0. P. i. p. 40 

 (1880), iii. p. 507 (1882), Aggiunte, p. 15 (1889) ; Ogilvie- 

 Grant, P. & P. p. 291 (1912) ; id. Ibis, 1913, p. 102. 



a. ? imm. Mouth o£ the Mimika River, 4th Dec. 1910. 

 [No. 51, C.H.B.G.] 



b. c? • Canoe Cilamp, Setakwa River, 14th Nov. 1912. 

 [C.B.K.'] 



Adult male. Ii'is dark greenish-ochre ; orbital skin olive- 

 grey ; upper mandible olive-grey, tip pale ; lower mandible 

 pale greenish-grey; feet dull lemon. 



Adult male. Wing 413 mm.; tail 355 ; tarsus 111. 



Immature female. Wing 440 mm. ; tail 380 ; tarsus 119. 



This specimen, though a very large bird, is evidently 

 quite young ; some o£ the quills and tail-feathers still carry 

 downy plumes at the tips of the shafts. Both the inner 

 primary and secondary quills are margined towards the tip 

 with whitish-buff. The middle pair of tail-feathers has 

 been lost, but the outer pairs are much less regularly barred 

 with blackish-brown than in the adult and a large portion of 

 the inner web is mottled with brown and white, the mottling 

 extending nearly to the tips of the feathers. 



" The New Guinea Harpy-Eagle was only observed on 

 the coast, where the young female specimen skinned by 

 Chunggat, one of our Dyaks, was secured by a native on the 

 4th of' December, 1910. A pair were seen about the tall 

 casuarina trees, and after several attempts to get near them, 

 I risked a long shot as they were soaring over my head ; 



