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LIST OF DIURNAL BIRDS OF PREY. 



1 I take this opportunity of correcting a slight inaccuracy as to the occurrence of the 

 Kite in Norfolk, which, by some inadvertence, has found its way into the article above 

 referred to. Mr. Seebohm there says, "Mr. Gurney writes that he sometimes sees this 

 bii'd in Norfolk passing southwards in the autumn in company with Buzzards": this 

 paragraph appears to be founded on a notice by my son, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., in 

 the ' Zoologist ' for 1877, p. 260, in which he records having once witnessed such an 

 occurrence on the 2nd of M;iy in that year ; but I know no other instance of a Kite 

 having been seen in Norfolk in company with Buzzards, and but very few, compara- 

 tively, during the last half-century, of its occurring in the county at all. 



^ There is a misprint in a footnote to p. 79 of the ' Ibis,' 1879; for " 1875. p. 22" 

 read " 1875, p. 229." Since my Notes on Milvus melanotis were pubhshed, the Norwich 

 Museum has acquired a specimen from Kultuk, near Lake Baikal. 



3 Here referred to as Milvus major. 



" Mr. Brooks here repeats the reasons which he had previously given in 'Stray 

 Feathers,' vol. iv. p. 272, for considering that '' Milvvs govinda " of Sykes was intended 

 by him as a designation of the larger migratory Indian Kite for whicli I have used 



