Notes on Mr. R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 325 
Typical specimens of Garrulax galbanus and Suthora mu - 
nipurensis; presented by Major H. H. Godwin-Austen. 
Tbe type of Horeites pallidipes from Sikkim; presented by 
L. Mandelli, Esq. 
Two collections of 246 specimens from N.W. Borneo ; one 
made by H. Low, Esq., the other by Mr. A. Everett. 
A series of 77 specimens collected by Dr. Steere in the 
Philippine Islands, by which 20 species were added to the 
British-Museum collection. 
Six species new to the collection, and represented by 12 
specimens from Taviuni, Fiji Islands; collected by E. L. 
Layard, Esq. 
The type of Casuarius westermanni, and specimens of C. 
picticollis and C.beccarii; purchased of the Zoological Society. 
A series of the lately described new species of Bird of Para¬ 
dise (Paradisea raggiana) ; purchased. 
A small collection from South-eastern New Guinea; pur¬ 
chased. 
Specimens of Paradigalla carunculata from the Arfak 
Mountains, and of Tanysiptera Carolines from Mafoor; ob¬ 
tained by exchange. 
Thirteen specimens from the Galapagos Islands; collected 
by Commander W. E. Cookson. 
XXYI.— Notes on a ‘ Catalogue of the Accipitres in the 
British Museum ,' by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. 
Gurney. 
[Continued from p. 236.] 
The next Eagle which I propose to consider is that figured 
in plate 29 of the late Dr. Gray's ‘ Illustrations of Indian 
Zoology' under the name of cc Aquila fulvescens.” The type 
of this species is, I believe, not now in existence; and Mr. 
Sharpe quotes (c fulvescens” as a synonym of “ vindhiana 
but, as already mentioned ( anted , p. 225), I cannot agree with 
him in this view. 
In ‘The Ibis' for 1871, at p. 245, the late Dr. Jerdon stated 
ser. tv.— VOL. i. 
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