420 Mr. J. H. Gurney’s Notes on 
of the primaries is conspicuously “ barred throughout with 
greyish buff”*. 
The localities quoted by Mr. Sharpe for N. morphnoides 
are South Australia and Queensland, to which West Australia 
should be added, as the Norwich Museum contains an ex¬ 
ample from the Swan River, and as others from King George’s 
Sound are recorded at page 29 of Mr. Ramsay’s f Catalogue 
of Australian Accipitres,’ where some interesting information 
will also he found relating to the variations of plumage inci¬ 
dent to this species, which may be compared with Mr. Sharpe’s 
additional observations on the same subject in the P. Z. S. 
1875, p. 338. 
Nisaetus fasciatus, like N.pennatus,.h&$, subsequently to the 
issue of Mr. Sharpe’s volume, been the subject of an article 
in Mr. Dresser’s f Birds of Europe much valuable and de¬ 
tailed information respecting the geographical distribution of 
this Eagle is contained in this article; but by some oversight 
the author erroneously cites Damara Land as a locality for 
this species, and quotes, as applying to it, the late Mr. Anders- 
son’s remarks on its more southern congener, N. spilogasterf. 
In reality there is, so far as I am aware, no trustworthy 
record of the occurrence of N. fasciatus in South Africa ; and 
with regard to its occurrence at Biballa and Huilla, in the Por¬ 
tuguese possessions in South-Western Africa, recorded in the 
f Journal fur Ornithologie ’ for 1876, p. 308, it seems proba¬ 
ble, as suggested by Mr. Sharpe at page 38 of his edition of 
Layard’s ‘ Birds of South Africa,’ that an error of identi¬ 
fication may have occurred, and a further investigation may 
show that N. spilogaster has been mistaken for N. fasciatus — 
a mistake which, as I have already pointed out at p. 138 of 
tf The Ibis’ for 1868, may readily arise from the resemblance 
* In Mr. Dresser’s article on N. pennatus, lie speaks of the “ under 
surface of the wings being mottled ” in N. morphnoides ; but, judging from 
the specimens I have examined, I should say that the word “ barred ” 
describes the peculiarity more accurately than “ mottled.” 
t Vide ‘Notes on the Birds of Damara Land,’ pp. 7 & 8, where the 
•original error on this point, which arose from a mistake of my own, will 
be found corrected; Mr. Dresser, no doubt, quoted from the first edition 
of Mr. Layard’s ‘Birds of South Africa,’ p. 11. 
