Compendium der neu beschriebenen Gattungen und Arten. 77 



de la queue 0,140, du bec ä partir du front 0,014, du tarse 

 0,025, du doigt median (sans l'ongle) 0,029 m. 



Le specimen unique qui a servi de type a cette description 

 a 6te pris au mois de mars 1880, dans l'ile de LuQon, ä 300 m. 

 d'altitude dans les niontagnes au N. E. de Bayabas. 



II est probable que le male est revetu d'un costume encore 

 plus somptueux. La tete est sans doute d'un rouge vif, ses 

 flaues doivent etre d'un vert metallique, comme dans le Bham- 

 phiculus occipitalis, et son plastron pectoral plus 6tendu, rejoint 

 peut-etre la teinte rouge du menton. 



FAM. FALÖONIDjE. 



Accipiter Hawaii. 



Dole, List of Birds of the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian 

 Annual 1879). 



14 inches long. Dark brown above; throat dull white; 

 breast mottled brown and white; dull white feathers on legs 

 and abdomen. Legs feathered below tarsi. Strong back claws. 

 Legs and feet light and scaly. Similar to young Accipiter ruß- 

 torques of Fiji Islands. 



Hab. : Hawaii. 



Buteo Menetriesi. 



Bogdanow, Avec caucasicae, Arbeit. Kasan. Naturf Ges. 

 Vol. VIII, Heft 4, 1879; Journ. f. Ornith. 1880, p. 261. 



[Durch einen einfarbig rostrothen Schwanz ausgezeichnet; 

 die ausführliche Beschreibung siehe Journal für Ornith. 1880, 

 p. 261—262]. 



Hab. : Kaukasus. 

 -j- Micrastur amaurus. 



Gurney, J. H., Ibis, S. IV, vol. III, April 1879, p. 171. 



The entire upper surface is of a uniform and unbroken 

 dark brown with the following exceptions: a slightly darker 

 shade of brown on the nape; a few indistinct fulvous - brown 

 spots on both webs of the greater wing coverts, bastard wing, 

 and tertials, those on the ianer webs of the feathers being paler 

 than those on the outer web ; similar but larger spots, assuming 

 the character of transverse bars, on both webs of the primaries 

 and secondaries; and white spots on both webs of the feathers 

 of the Upper tail coverts, taking the form in those next the tail 

 of three transverse white bars, divided by the dark shaft of the 

 feathers, the spots on the feathers next the rump being smaller 

 and tinged with fulvous. 



The tail is of somewhat darker brown than the back, with 

 four white transverse bands, divided by the dark shafts of the 

 feathers, and also narrowly tipped with white; the lateral 

 rectrices with a concealed white bar near the base. 



The chin, throat, and upper breast are of a whole - co- 



