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Mr. J. H. Gnmey^s Notes on 
region has^ if I mistake not, become more extensively fu¬ 
liginous. 
I have recently had an opportunity of examining three par¬ 
tially fuliginous Limnaeti from Ceylon in the collection of the 
Marquis of Tweeddale, which greatly resemble in coloration 
the example now in the Zoological Gardens; the dimensions 
of these three specimens are similar to those of the ordinary 
pale phase of L. ceylonensis, I may add that the Indian L. 
cirrhatus, though not subject to absolute melanism, often 
occurs in a partially fuliginous plumage very similar to that 
of the Ceylon birds to which I have just alluded. 
I may also mention that, in a cage adjacent to the one in 
which the Ceylon Limnaetus is domiciled in the Zoological 
Society's Gardens, will be found an interesting newly acquired 
example of Morphnus gmanensis, from the Upper Amazons, 
in immature plumage, but a little more advanced than that 
^ described in my last paper. In this specimen the irides are 
j pearl-grey, the cere and bare skin adjoining the eyes slate- 
^ colour, and the legs and feet yellow. 
Since my last paper went to press, I have seen in the 
Museum at Edinburgh an apparently adult specimen of Thra- 
saetus harpyia, said to have been obtained in Guiana, pre¬ 
senting the following peculiarities of coloration, which I do not 
recollect to have previously observed in this species :—A single 
small rufous feather is apparent on the forehead; the gorget 
across the upper breast is blackish brown,^mingled with rufous, 
the former predominating on the upper part of the band, and 
the latter on the lower; many of the feathers in the small 
wing-coverts near the carpal joint are either wholly rufous 
or partly rufous and partly black, but in both cases narrowly 
tipped with white; the feathers of the flanks are of mingled 
brownish black, rufous, and white; the transverse bars on 
the thighs are pale rufous; and, lastly, the bars on the inner 
surface of the first primary are brownish black, mingled with 
pale rufous. 
I had not an opportunity of examining this specimen, 
except through the glass of the case in which it is exhibited 
hut this somewhat imperfect examination enabled me to note' 
