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Not previously recorded from Hainan. 



This luagnificeiit species is distributed from the Himalayas (Nepal) to the 

 Malay Peninsula and Cochin-China. 



122. Baza jerdoni (BIyth)? 



Lophasliis Jerilniii Blyth, Junni. An. Sm:. Bengal xi p. 4lU (184'2). 



4 <?? Mt. AVuchi, October, November lOOo (No. 270). 



These liirds appear to belong to the rare Baza jerdoni, recorded only from a 

 few specimens from Sikkim, Teiiasserim and IManbhooni in Sonth-western Bengal, 

 and, if Baza siimatreims LafV. and Baza inco</nita Hume arc the same (about 

 which I am by no means certain), in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. The old 

 birds, of which there are two, have the ear-coverts pale grey with brownish edges, 

 the crown and hindneck rusty brown with blacki.sh centres to the feathers. Wings 

 about 33 cm., but being in moult not measurable with absolute exactness. Tlie 

 upper mandible of the beak has two distinct " teetii " ; the longest crest-feathers 

 have white tips. " Iris bright orange." 



123. Polioaetus humilis major Meyer & Wigl. 



PoUoaetus humilis major Meyer & Wiglesworth, B. Cdebes i. p. 41 (1898 — "Sub-Himalayan 



Ranges "). 

 Polioaetus humilis Grant, P. Z. S. 1000. p. 491 (Liuwowan, teste Styan). 



1 ,J Mt. Wuchi, 13. xi. 1905 (No. 277). 



2 (?<?, 1 ? Mt. Wuchi, November 1906 (No. 277). 



The larger race inhabiting the southern slopes and lower forests of the Hima- 

 layas has justly been named P. humilis major by Messrs. Meyer & Wiglesworth, 

 as the name pliimhcufi of Hodgson is a " nomen nudum " of uncertain apjilication. 



Though we have no proof of this, I have no doubt that this bird is only a 

 winter visitor on Hainan, migrating southwards in the cold season. The wings of 

 onr Hainan specimens measure : ? 460, 3 cJ o 445, 430, 426 mm. 



124. Pandion haliaetus haliaetus (L.). 



Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 491 (" Harbours of Hainan," Swinhoe). 



iS Lei Muimon, January 1903 (No. 161). 



? S. Hainan, May 1904 (No. 161). 



4 (J? Mt. Wuchi, October, November 1905, November 1006 (No. 161). 



The birds from Hainan belong to P. h. haliaetus, and not to P. h. leucocepkalus. 



125. Eurystomus orientalis calonyx Sharpe. 



Kuriixlomus mIoiii/T Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. .Uus. xvii. p. 38. pi. ii. fig. 2 ( 1 892— " Amoorland, 

 Manchuria and North China in summer, apparently wintering in Tenasserim, the Malayan 

 Peninsula and Borneo. Throughout the Himalayas from Kumaon to Assam ") ; Grant, 

 P. Z. S. 1900. p. 488 (Hoihow, 29. ix., teste Styan). 



<? ? ad. Sccba, April 1902 (No. 56). Bills large, culmen 33—34 mm. 

 (J? ad. Hoihow, 25. viii., 1. ix. 1903 (No. 50). Bills smaller, culmen 27-5 and 

 32 mm. 



J juv. Hoihow, In. viii. 10ii3 (No. 56). 

 J juv. No-Tai, 27. ix. 1902 (No. 56). 



