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Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 
Finally, I may mention that Dr. Comrie, late surgeon of 
H.M.S. f Basilisk/ under the command of Capt. Moresby, has 
placed in my hands for determination a small collection of 
bird-skins, made during the survey of the N.E. coast of New 
Guinea, of which Capt. Moresby has lately given us such an 
interesting narrative*. Amongst these are a single skin of 
a fine new Manucodia, which I described at a recent Meet¬ 
ing of the Zoological Society as M. comrii, and several ex¬ 
amples of that rare Lory Lorius hypcenochrous of G. R. Gray 
—both fine additions to the Papuan avifauna. 
May 13, 1876. 
XXXIV.— Notes on a ‘ Catalogue of the Accipitres in the 
British Museum / by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. 
Gurney. 
[Continued from p. 243.] 
It will be convenient in considering the Old-World species 
of the genus Buteo to commence with B. vulgaris; and in 
doing so I would remark that Mr. Sharpe only alludes in 
somewhat general terms to the geographical range of this 
species, but that a detailed account of the localities where it 
has been ascertained to exist will be found in Mr. Dresser’s 
recent article on this species in his f Birds of Europe;' and to 
this account I have only to add, with reference to its western 
range, that the Norwich Museum contains an adult pairf, 
with their nestling young, obtained in the island of Madeira, 
and, with reference to its eastern, that the same collection 
possesses specimens from Trebizond and Erzeroom. 
It is well known that this species is very subject to partial 
leucotism; but how far this is limited to young birds does not 
appear to have been accurately ascertained; I have, however, 
observed that such examples usually have a straw-coloured 
* See above, p. 259. 
t These specimens have been recently examined by Mr. Dresser, who 
agrees with me in referring them to B. vulgaris, of which they are, in 
fact, typical examples. 
