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LIST OF DIURNAL BIRDS OP PREY. 



Hume in vol. ix. p. 231, and by Major Legge in the 'Birds 

 of Ceylou/ p. 26, with others taken by myself, I have arrived 

 at the following results : — 



Mules. 



Wiug. 



in. 



One, Darjeeling 6' 50 



One, Malabar 6-20 



I 6-00 



Six, Ceylon { to 



^ I 6-40 



One, Pegu 6'7o 



One, Malacca 6-70 



I 5-80 



Three, Java \ to 



5-90 



Females. 



Wing. 



One, Madras 7-50 



I 7-30 



Three, Andamans < to 



\ 7-50 



Four, Malay Peninsula and I , 

 Singapore j 7.5Q 



Tarsus. 

 2-25 



Middle 

 toe s. u. 



1-40 



I am disposed to think that it is justifiable to adopt, as a 

 subspecific designation for the large Northern race of A. vir- 

 gatus, Hodgson's name of '^ affinis." 



" Accipiter affinis, Hodgson,^' was published without a 

 description in Gray^s ' Zoological Miscellany ' for 1844, 

 p. 81, and was based on No, 35 of the series of coloured 

 di'awings presented by Mr. Hodgson to the British Museum ; 

 a skin is also preserved in the Museum which is believed to 

 be the original of that drawing. 



Mr. Seebohm, who has kindly examined this specimen at 

 my request, informs me that it is " apparently a young male 



