NO. 1288. ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLAND BIRDS-RICHMOND. 307 



iiidi.stinct bars, more prominent on the inner webs. Inner webs of 

 primaries and secondaries (except at tips) white, obscurely mottled 

 with dusky. Wing, 192 nmi.; tail, 157 mm.; tarsus, 52 nun.; culmen, 

 21.5 mm.; length, 330 mm. '""Iris dark crimson; feet yellow; bill 

 blackish at tip, horn blue at base; cere greenish; eyelids greenish. 

 Stomach contained lizards." A second female measured 343 mm. 

 '' Iris crimson!! Stomach contained insects. Shot in dense jungle." 

 A third individual, also a female, has a total length of 3-1:3 nmi. 

 ''Iris red. Stomach contained lizards." This specimen has traces of 

 imuiaturity in some ))lack-tipped ferruginous feathers on sides of neck 

 and on the scapulars. 



This interesting hawk closely resembles ^1. hatler! above, ])ut is 

 paler on the nape and sides of head; it differs also in the indistinct 

 white superciliary line and white lores and throat. Below it resem- 

 ))les A. hnflerl in pattern, l)ut with the reddish color on breast almost 

 entirely absent. In ^1. oh'<ofdii.s the irides are crimson; in ^1. hidhrl 

 and allies they are orange or yellow. 



Dr. Abbott saw five or six others on Katchal, but did not obtain them. 

 "The bird called up easily, but generally lit so close to one that it was 

 not desirable to shoot, and at the slightest movement they were off, 

 and all were in dense jungle. In Kamorta I saw a small hawk which 

 seemed like A. hutlerl^ but failed to secure it." 



This Kamorta hawk w^ll dou])tless prove to be A. obwletut^. 



ASTUR SOLOENSIS (Horsfield). 



Falco solo'eni^ia Hoksfield, Trans. Liiui. Sue. Load., XIII, Pt. 1, May, 1821, 

 p. 137 (Java). 



Twehe specimens, from Katchal, Great and Little Nicol)ar. The 

 total length, in fresh birds, is noted as 273 to 298.5 mm. The iris is 

 stated to be "])rown" or ''dark brown" in the males, and "-lemon yel- 

 low" to "'orange" in the females; those in an immature male were 

 "brownish orange." 



The individuals of this series vaiy greatly in the amount of ferrugi- 

 nous on the breast, but several of them are identical with a specimen 

 from Korea. 



"A small hawk, which may be this species, was tirst obtained in 

 Katchal in dense forest. AVe afterwards found it common in Great 

 and Little Nicobar. They 'called up' easily." 



Von Pelzeln records a hawk under this name from Car IS'icoljar, 

 which may possibly have been A. Imtlrl 



FALCO PEREGRINUS Tunstall. 



[Falco] per egrinm TvsaTAhi., Oru. Britannica, 1771, p. 1 (Great Britain). 

 One adult male, from Kamorta. 



'' Shot near a small jheel, where it had just made a dash at a flock of 

 teal \I)cndtocy(j)M javamca\. Iris dark brown." Length, ilO mm. 



