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feather being pure white; minor and major under wing-coverts pure white, a few 

 possessing a terminal light-brown spot or drop; axillaries immaculate white; major 

 wing-coverts brown on outer, white, barred with brown, on the inner web ; no trace of 

 an occipital crest ; bill exceedingly powerful, height from festoon to culmen being full 

 five eighths of an inch. This bird closely resembles a Cingalese example of a young 

 S. cirrhatus, Gm. (=S. cristatellus, Temm.) in my collection. The only points of dif- 

 ference in the Cingalese individual being, besides its smaller dimensions, a black 

 occipital crest three inches and a half long, the major wing-coverts being mostly white, 

 and the axillaries and thigh-coverts being white, largely dashed, freckled, and barred 

 with a clear tint of pale rufous. In the Celebean bird the tarsal feathers incline to 

 cover the insertion of the toes. Dimensions: — wing 16 inches, tail llf, tarsus 3 J, 

 mid toe with claw 2|, bill from gape 2, 



Polioaetus, Kaup. 



18. Polioaetus humilis (Mti.ll. et Schlegel), Verh. Ned. overz. Bez. Aves, p. 47, pi. 6, 



"Sumatra;" Wallace, Ibis, 1868, p. 14; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Aqiiila!, 

 p. 18. 

 Eab. Celebes (Wallace); Sumatra (Mutter); Malay peninsula (Blyth); Bengal 

 (Schlegel). 



Cuncuma, Hodgson. 



19. Curcuma leucogastee (Gm.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 257 (1788); Valkv. Neder. Ind. pi. 4. 



figs. 1, 2 ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 15 ; Mus. Pays-Bas, Aguilas, p. 14. 



Hab. Malacca, Celebes, Gilolo, Batchian, Morty, Aru Islands ( Wallace) ; Macassar 

 (mus. nostr); all over India, chiefly on the coast (Jerdon); Australia, Tasmania (Gould); 

 Timor, Sumatra, Java, Ternate (Schlegel) ; Ceylon (Layard). 



Spiloenis, G. R. Gray. 



20. Spiloenis eufipectus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 222, "Macassar;" Schlegel, Valkv. 



Nederl. Ind. p. 72, pi. 23; Mus. Pays-Bas, Buteones, p. 27. 



Hab. Menado (mus. nostr.); Celebes (Wallace); Tondano, Gorontalo (Forsten). 



MlLVIN^E. 



Haliastue, Selby. 



21. Haliastue leucosteenus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 138, " Australia ;" Birds of Austr. 



i. pi. 4 ; Valkv. Nederl. Ind. pi. 4. fig. 3. 

 Eab. Celebes, all the Moluccas, New Guinea (Wallace); northern and eastern shores 

 of Australia (Gould); Macassar (S. Mutter); Goenong-Tello, district of Gorontalo, 

 Tondano (Forsten). 



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