36 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 5. N:0 9. 



named as above but it appears as if the Black Kites of 

 Asia were in great need of a revision which no doubt would 

 reduce to the rank of subspecies some that are now generally 

 held as species and named accordingly. 



A young specimen, not yet fully fledged, from Kum c? 

 (n:o 34) 7? 1908 is probably a representative of Milvus go- 

 vinda. The upper parts of the head are rufous buff with 

 narroAV black shaft-stripes and dark brown edges to the f eath- 

 ers of the hind part of the crown. The ground-colour of the 

 upper parts is very dark brown, but on the neck the broad 

 buff spöts occupying the ends af the feathers dominate. On 

 the wing-coverts these sj^ots are shorter and the ground-colour 

 dominating but at the base of the buff spöts a more or less 

 defined ashy whitish spöt is seen on the inner web. The dark 

 shaft-stripe passes through the buff terminal spöt. The 

 feathers of the lower back have a white roundish subterminal 

 spöt on either web and white basal parts, extending över the 

 basal half or more. The concealed parts of the scapulars 

 have white spöts and bars on the inner web. The tail feathers 

 are dark brown shaded across with black bars. 



Aquila pomarina hastata (Less.). 



Tumutscheji 9 (n:o 7) 7? 1908. 



Wing 480, Culmen 46,5 mm. (without cere 36 mm). 



This species is not recorded by Taczanowski for Eastern 

 Siberia, and the locality quoted appears to be far to the north 

 of its known area of distribution but the small size of the spe- 

 cimen, - although it is a female, and other characteristics 

 prove that it is not A. maculata, which is said to normally 

 inhabit this eastern country. 



Aquila nipalensis glitscliii (Menzbier). 



Ibizik 9 (n:o 2) ^5 1908. Kiran ? n:o 3 "'^s 1908. 



It is connected with a great difficulty to give correct 

 names to the Asiatic Steppe Eagles. because there appears 

 to be a great confusion in the literature. The names have 

 been used rather promiscuously, and new names have been too 

 freely proposed without satisfactory diagnoses having been 

 added. It seems also to the present writer unnecessary to 

 regard all the different forms as real species. It might suf- 



