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Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 
Specimens from both Formosa and Japan are preserved in the 
Norwich Museum ; and the only figure of this fine species 
yet published is, I believe, that of a Japanese specimen, not 
fully adult, which is given on pi. 3 of the f Fauna Japonica.' 
L. nipalensis has thus a more northern range than any other 
species of the genus. 
I may here mention that by an accidental error the de¬ 
scription of a nestling of Spilornis cheela , preserved in the 
British Museum, has been inserted at p. 267 of Mr. Sharpe’s 
volume as that of a nestling of Limnaetus nipalensis. The 
tarsi in this very young specimen are greatly decayed, which 
probably led to this mistake. 
It is remarkable, as has been already pointed out by the 
Marquis of Tweeddale*, that the peculiarity which appears in 
this, the largest of the Limnaeti , of the tarsal feathering extend¬ 
ing onto the first joint of the middle toe, is shared by only one 
other species, and that the smallest of the genus, L. alboniger , 
respecting which I have nothing further to add to Mr. Sharpe's 
account, except to observe that the white tip to the crest in 
the adult plumage is not a constant character, and also that 
the Hawk-Eagle from Java, figured in Schlegel's f Valk- 
Yogels,' pi. 6. fig. 1, appears to me to be probably an imma¬ 
ture example of this species, judging from this figure and 
from the measurements of the bird quoted in the f Museum 
des Pays-Bas,’ Astures, p. 11. 
Another of the smaller eastern Limnaeti is L. philippensis, 
which appears to be confined to the Philippine Islands. This 
species is well figured in the Marquis of Tweeddale's valuable 
paper on the Birds of the Philippine Archipelago f from an 
adult specimen in the Norwich Museum; a slightly younger 
bird in the same collection is somewhat paler, especially about 
the head, and is less distinctly barred on the lower part of 
fhe tarsi. 
There is but one other eastern Hawk-Eagle, L. Jcieneri , 
which Mr. Sharpe makes the type of his genus Lophotriorchis. 
This bird certainly differs, in the character of its coloration, both 
* Vide Ibis, 1874, p. 128. 
t Vide ‘ Transactions of the Zoological Society,’ vol. ix. pi. 24. 
