412 Ant. Reichenow und Herman Schalow: 
very narrow cross bands of blackish slate, tbe margins of the 
shoulders and under wing-coverts white; a faint tinge of buff on 
the median under-coverts; the lower part of the abdomen and of 
the flanks and the under tail-coverts bufi; tail ashy white below, 
ashy brown above, showing remains of two oblique blackish cross 
bands on its basal haif, the first about the centre of the tail and 
extending over both webs, the apical third of the tail black. Bill 
black; legs and feet mealy brown; iris yellow. T. 1. 15 to 16 
inches; wing 12; tail 8; tarsus 1,3; bill from gape 1,2. 
Hab.: Ugi and Cape Pitt, Solomon Islands. 
197. Falco peregrinus brevirostris. 
M. Menzbier, Ornitholog. Geographie des Europ. Russland. 
Moscau 1882 Bd. I. p. 276. (Russisch!) 
Ressemble beaucoup ä la forme du Falco peregrinus cornicum 
Brehm, mais la coloration en est moins intense: le dessus du corps 
gris traverse de raies transversales d’un gris bleuätre beaucoup 
plus fonc&; le dessous color& d’une teinte rose päle; les subalaires 
d’un fond blanchätre ou bien roux-rouille sont toutes nuancees 
de raies foncees. Les dimensiones (2: L. 19—21'; A. 14" 8; 
C. 7; T. 2°) sont plus grandes que celles du Falco peregrinus 
cornicum et pourtant le bee est moins long et moins comprim& 
(la longueur du bec —= 1'' 5°). Les jeunes dans le premier plu- 
mage ont le fond des parties superieures d’un brun fonee, tandis 
que ceux de la forme du Falco peregrinus cornicum ont le dessus 
du corps noir bleuätre; Poceiput est d’un brun fonc& parsem® d’un 
grand nombre de taches d’un roux-rouille. A Täge la coloration 
devient moins intense: le gris bleuätre du dessus du corps est 
moins prononc6; les parties inferieures recoivent une teinte blan- 
chätre, les taches et les raies deviennent moins larges et meme 
disparaissent tout-A-fait, ce qui n’arrive jamais dans la forme du 
Falco peregrinus cornicum. | 
Hab.: Süd-Russland. 
198. Henicopernis infuscata. 
J. H. Gurney, Ibis Vol. 6 No. 21 p. 128. 
Similar to H. longicauda from Waigiou. The feathers on the 
crown of the head, occiput, and nape are broader than in the Wai- 
oiou Bird. Six nuchal feathers apparent!y form a nuchal crest, of 
which the central are an inch and a half in length and an inch 
in breadth, and the others nearly as large. The scapulars, inter- 
seapulars, and wing-coverts are a whole-eoloured dark brown, 
corresponding in tint with the dark bars on the mantle of H. 
longicauda. The lower scapulars are dark brown, with the base 
and two narrow transverse bars whitish.. The tertials have three 
imperfeet white transverse bars, the primaries two whitish-brown 
perfect önes, the secondaries have two such bars in one specimen, 
and three in the other. The effect of these markings is to pro- 
duce two conspicuous brownish-white bars across the closed wing, 
those portions of all the remiges are not crossed by pale bars 
