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Falco severus, n°. 9), belonged indeed to a new form, an 

 eastern representative of Falco severus Horsfield. The other 

 bird however, that, which Sharpe called the adult female 

 (being a male, collected by Dr. E. A, Forsten in 1842 on 

 Ceram), belongs to quite another species, is namely a me- 

 lanistic Falco lunulatus Latham {Falco lunulatus, Schlegel, 

 Cat. n°. 7). The two birds from Mount Victoria agree with 

 Sharpe's typical specimen from Halmahera, only the black 

 longitudinal stripes on the undersurface are a little broader ; 

 this may be however a difference of age. 



The lighter, western true Falco severus Horsfield (syn. 

 Falco aldrovandii Temminck, F. rufipedoides Hodgson, F. 

 severus indicus Meyer & Wiglesworth) is found from British 

 India to the western Indo-Malayan Archipelago, whereas 

 the darker, eastern race, Fcdco severus religiosus Sharpe, 

 inhabits the Moluccas, New Guinea and the adjacent 

 islands. Intermediate forms we have in our collection from 

 the Philippine Islands {Falco guttatus G. R. Gray) and 

 from Celebes. 



Rallidae. 



Rallicula forbesi Sharpe. 



Rallicula forbesi Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXIN, 1894, p. 124. 



A male and a female. Mt. Victoria, 12000 ft. Coll. Henkel- 

 man. — This species was still wanting in our collection. We 

 possess now the three known species of this genus. Of 

 Rallicula rubra Schlegel (Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. IV (1871), 

 p. 55) we have the two type-specimens, a male and a 

 female, collected by vón Rosenberg 13 April 1870 near 

 Hattam, and an adult specimen from Mt. Arfak presented 

 in 1875 by Mr. van Hasselt. Of Rallicula leucospila Sal- 

 vadori (Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, VII, 1875, p. 975) we have 

 only one specimen, a male, shot 27 January 1876 at War- 

 mendi, Arfak district, purchased from A. A. Bruyn in 1878. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



