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daert called it P. speciosa. Ought not the credit of having 
named D. guglielmi-tertit to be given to Van Musschenbroek, 
as is done by Meyer himself? 
I remain, 
Yours very truly, 
| T. Satvapori. 
Northrepps, 13th March, 1876. 
S1r,—In the late Mr. Blyth’s valuable ‘ Catalogue of Mam- 
mals and Birds of Burma,’ recently published by the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal, the ornithological portion of which is 
edited and enriched with notes by Viscount Walden, the fol- 
lowing editorial note occurs at page 62, under the head of 
Accipiter virgatus :—‘‘'Thayet Myo (F.). Captain Feilden 
was good enough to send me the example here noted, and 
which I provisionally identify with A. virgatus. In Mr. 
Sharpe’s opinion it may belong to the race named J. steven- 
soni by Mr. Gurney; the latter gentleman, however, as will 
be seen below, identified, though with doubt, this Thayet- 
Myo example as belonging to ‘4. rhodogaster, nearly adult. ” 
Through the kindness of Lord Walden I have had a second 
opportunity of examining this specimen; and having since I 
first saw it, some years since, become better acquainted with 
the variations of plumage incident to A. virgatus, I am now 
able to state decidedly that it is a male of that species in the 
second or intermediate plumage, described by me in ‘ The 
Ibis’ for 1875, p. 480. I was quite wrong in supposing that 
it might be an example of A. rhodogaster ; and it is equally a 
mistake to refer it to A. stevensoni. I may add that this 
specimen precisely agrees with one from India which is pre- 
served in the Norwich Museum. 
I wish also to mention that through the kindness of Pro- 
fessor Newton, and of his brother Mr. Edward Newton, I 
have had an opportunity of examining a specimen of Circus 
macroscelus lately received by the latter gentleman from Ma- 
dagascar. The sex of this individual has not been recorded ; 
but as its dimensions somewhat exceed those of the type speci- 


