MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 471 
( Accipiter ) type, which my father left under the name of Accipiter 
hartlaubi (Verr.) ; but one of them, marked an adult male from 
the river Gaboon in West Africa, must certainly he A. biittikoferi, 
Sharpe, for the two centre tail-feathers are absolutely black without 
trace of spots, and the thighs are grey. These are the character- 
istics of the Liberian species, A. biittikoferi , which is figured in 
lliittikofer’s ‘ Keisebilder aus Liberia,’ ii. plate xxx. 
*■ It is to Mr. Sclater we are indebted for kindly offering ns 
two examples of the quaint little Chinese Falconet {Microhinux 
mrlanoleucm) ( lllyth)- a miniature among Birds of Prey — from 
near foochow, which, deposited at the Zoological Gardens, did not 
long survive their confinement in smoky London. During the 
two months they lived there, their large heads, and eyes directed 
very forward, led Mr. Tegetmeier to credit them with crepuscular 
habits, as described in ‘The Field’ of January 20th, 1898, where their 
portraits are admirably given. Though described in ‘ The Field ’ as 
a pair, they both proved to lie females : but one only has the white 
nuchal spot distinctive of M. eliinensis, Dav., which in the opinion 
of Mr. C. 15. Pickett, must sink into a synonym, and at any rate is 
not a distinctive sexual mark. This species has strong claws and 
a notched beak, and is by no means exclusively insectivorous, 
having, according to L’Abbe David, the rapid flight of the large 
Falcons. 
“Turning now to Owls, a female Ninox {Spilofjtanx) ftisca 
(\ ieill.), labelled by Mr. A. Everett, ‘Atapupu, island of Timur, 
August, 1897,’ agrees with plate xii. of vol. ii. of the B. M. 
Catalogue of Birds. Dr. Meyer has given a key to the distinctive 
marks of this and some other closely allied Owls in ‘The Ibis,’ 
1882, p. 234, where he remarks on the small longitudinal bars 
on the under surface of N. t'asca, and the absence of white spots 
upon the head. They are entirely absent in our specimen, which 
only differs from Dr. Sharpe’s plate in having more spots on the 
scapulars. Excellently mounted by Mr. Gunn are a male and 
female Ninox rudolphi, A. B. Meyer, also obtained through the 
late Mr. Everett, for many years a contributor to the Norwich 
Museum, and whose loss we so greatly deplore, both taken in 
September, 1896, at Waingapo, on Sumba or Sandlewood Island 
in the Indian Ocean. The female agrees very well with the plate 
in ‘ l’lie Ibis,’ 1882, pi. vi., but the male is a good deal redder on 
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