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During my visit to Leyden in April of the present year, I had the pleasure of examining carefully the collection of Rallidae as it had been arranged by the late Professor Schlegel in the year 1865 (cf. Cat. Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. V, pp. 1—79). The following notes, which form a small commentary on Schlegel’s Catalogue, may be of some use to future workers on the Rallidae.

On an apparently undescribed genus de Wrens from Timor

Ano: 1893

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508617

In the Leyden Museum are some specimens of a bird from Timor, bearing the label « Orthotomus subulatus, Müll. Verh.», a name which I cannot find to have been published anywhere, and as far as I am aware the species has never been described under any other name. Generically this Wren comes very close to Pnoepyga, and has no rictal bristles and the front aspect of the tarsus entire. It has, however, a much longer bill, thinner, and more compressed, the culmen exceeding the hind toe and claw in length. I propose to separate it generically as Orthnocichla. The type will be

On a new species of Accipiter from Liberia

Ano: 1884

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509223

During my recent visit to the Leyden Museum I was much interested in examining the fine series of birds’-skins which had been brought home by Mr. Büttikofer and Mr. Stampfli from their expeditions to Liberia. Amongst other valuable specimens I was particularly attracted by a small Sparrow-Hawk, of which Mr. Büttikofer had preserved three adults, two females and a male. These are identified by him as Accipiter hartlaubi of Verreaux ¹), but I saw at once that they were not the same as the bird I had so named in the Catalogue of Birds (Vol. I, p. 150; pl. 6, fig. 2).

Ano: 1888

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508902

Notes on Timeliidæ

During a visit to the Leyden Museum last September I was able to examine several species of birds, which had not come under my notice during the preparation of the 7th volume of the »Catalogue of Birds”. Some of the species proved to be very distinct and I greatly regret that they have been omitted from the volume or relegated to foot-notes, as being of doubtful validity. During the whole of the time that this volume was going through the press, I was engaged in the moving of the Zoological Collections from Bloomsbury to South Kensington, and was unable to get abroad for my accustomed course of study in foreign Museums. I am sensible that the value of this volume has been somewhat impaired by these omissions, and I publish these supplementary notes, in...