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ON NEW-GUINEA BIRDS. 



Herodias torra, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. Ill, 1882, p. 350. 

 Herodias timoriensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXVI, 1898, 

 pp. 98 and 270. 



One specimen, not in breeding dress. Kaukas. Coll. van 

 Cloven. — The bill in this example is yellowish with a dark 

 brownish tip to the upper mandible. The bill in timoriensis 

 seems to turn never quite black. 



Falconidae. 



Leucospiza novae-hollandiae leucosomus Sharpe. 



Astur novae hollandiae, subsp. a. Astur leucosomus Sharpe, 



Cat. B. Br. M. I, 1874, p. 119. 

 Leucospizias leucosomus, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. I, 1880, p. 42. 



An adult specimen. Fak-Fak. Coll. Palmer van den Broek. 

 — We have no specimens from New Guinea in a brownish 

 grey plumage, like that is found in specimens of Leucospiza 

 novae hollandiae (Gmelin) from Australia, only 4 pure white 

 examples from western New Guinea (Lobo Bay, Has and 

 Island of Mefoor). Our traveller von Rosenberg, who collected 

 12 February 1869 a male on Mefoor, described the bill 

 black, cere, iris and feet orange-yellow. 



Falco severus religiosus Sharpe. 



Falco religiosus Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. I, 1874, p. 397 



(partim, only the immature female). 

 Falco severus papuanus Meyer & Wiglesworth, Abh. Mus. 



Dresden, 1892—93, n°. 3, p. 6. 



Two immature specimens, apparently a male and a female. 

 Mt. Victoria. Coll. Henkelman. — In 1874 Sharpe described 

 under the name of Falco religiosus two falcons, which make 

 part of our collection. The bird he first described, the 

 immature female (collected by Bernstein at Weda, southern 

 Halmahera, 14 June 1863 — Schlegel, Cat. Accipitres, 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



