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and bold longitudinal stripes on tbe jngnlnm, and in boing smaller; the male being 

 but very little smaller than the male of the latter, the female in size between the 

 male and female of ^1. o//i>i/s. The female of A. ffiiluri.s resembles that of .1. nis/is, 

 bnt it is even smaller than the male of the latter, the upper surface is somewhat 

 daikcr, the throat has only one irregular mesial line instead of a number of stripes, 

 and the under wing-coverts are tinged with rusty buff.— The young birds are, of 

 course, striped or spotted instead of barred. 



A male shot by the late Bingham at Nyaung-pyne in the Northern Shan States, 

 Upper Burma, on December ID, 1900, is a rather aberrant one, unless it belongs 

 to another, hitherto unde.-^cribed race. The mesial strijie along the pure white 

 throat is 2—3 mm. wide, and extends down over the jugular region, and the sides 

 of the body are half barred and half striped witii pale grey on a rusty brown ground, 

 so that very little remains of the whitish colour which prevails in the middle of the 

 breast and abdomen. 



This bird breeds in East Siberia (Lake Baical, Dauria, or Transbaicalia), 

 North China and Japan, and it migrates to the south, thus being found together with 

 A. riryatiis, in Borneo, Java, and India. 



(Another sparrowhawk from the East is Accipiter rhodogaster (Schleg.), from 

 Celebes. It is well described by Schlegel, Gurney, Sharpe, and last by Meyer and 

 Wiglesworth, in their great book on the Birds of Celebes, i. p. 25. I do not see 

 why this should be a subspecies of A. rirgatKS, but there can be no doubt whatever 

 that .1. rhodoqaster siihu'/isis, from the Sula Islands, is a subspecies of rhodogaster. 

 Our only adult example of sulaensis diflers from our single female of .-I. rhodogaster 

 rhodoqastc.r in the thighs being viuaceous cinnamon, instead of grey, as in the latter, 

 and perhaps the cheeks are less pure grey and more tinged with rufous. Messrs. 

 Meyer and Wiglesworth, with exceptional inconsistency, have named this form 

 binomially, " Accip/ti'r sulariisis," at the same time stating that it varies geo- 

 graphically in Sula in the same manner as Spilornis rujipectus sulaensis, which 

 they name trinomially. — The different colour of the thighs in our adnlt ^1. rhod. 

 sulaensis appears to be of no importance, as Schlegel figures his sulaensis with 

 grey thighs.) 



114. Buteo buteo plumipes Hodgs. 



Uuteo plumiim Hodgson, /'. /^. .S. lH4j. p. .37 (' Procured in the central hilly region,'' sc. of Nepal!) ; 

 Grant, P. Z. S. UKIO. p. 490. 



? Hoihow, February 10(i2 (No. fis). 



2 <Jo, 1 ¥ Mt. Wuchi, November 1905 (Nos. 198, 203). 



II."). Spizaetus nipalensis (Hodgs.). 



Grant, /'. /■ S. 1900. p. 490. (One specimen was procured by Whitehead.) 



1 (J, 1 ? Mt. Wuchi, November— December 1905 (No. 276). 

 116. Spilornis cheela rutherfordi Swinh. 



Spiturnh nUherfordi Swiuhoe, Ib',^, 1870. p. 8.:. (Hainan). 

 Spilornis melanntis Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 491. 



14 J? ad. et juv. Mt. Wnchi, Ajiril 1903 ; October, November 190.5. (Nos. 162, 



280.) 



? ad. Lei Muimon, January 1903 (No. 162). 



