58. MILVTTS. 325 



cere greyish white ; bill black ; feet bluish -white ; iris reddish 

 brown *. 



Hab. Japan and China to Formosa ; Indian peninsula. 



a. Juv. st. Japan. Piu'chased. 



b. Juv. sk. Formosa. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Fokien, China. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Amoy. R. Swiahoe, Esq. fC.l 

 €. Juv. sk. Chefoo, Sept. 6, 1873. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 

 f. Juv. sk. ShanghaL J. Webb, Esq. 



</. Ad. sk. Gangoutra, Himalaya Mts. 



h. Ad, St. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



i. Juv. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Juv. St. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



L $ ad. sk. Godavery valley. ■ W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Milvas govinda t. 



Mjlvus govinda, Sykcs, P. Z. S. 1802, p. 81 ; JBp. Consp. i. p. 21 

 (1850) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Milvi, p. 2 (1862) ; Jercl. B. Incl. i. 

 p. 104 (18G2) ; Grca/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 26 (1869) ; Hume, Rough 

 Notes, ii. p. 320 (1870) ; Hoklsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 414 ; Blanf. J. 

 A. S. B. 1872, p. 43 ; Hume Sf Hendsrs. Lahore to Yark. p. 176 

 (1873) ; Ball, Sir. F. i. p. 63 (1873). 



Milvus cheela. Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 71 (1839) ; Gray, Gen. B. 

 p. 24 (1845). 



mivus ater, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 31 (1849), 



Adult male. Above brown, the head and neck slightly rufescent, 

 and very distinctly striped down the centre of each feather with 

 black ; scapulars and wing-coverts edged with buff, the latter with 

 distinct black shaft-stripes, the median coverts rather paler brown ; 

 greater coverts and quills dark chocolate-brown, the inner seconda- 

 ries paler, the primaries darker and more inclining to blackish 

 brown, all the quills indistinctly white near the base, mottled with 

 "brown, the white only conspicuous on the primaries ; tail-feathers 

 brown, especially on the external web of the outermost, all tipped 

 with bufty white, and rather distinctly barred with blackish ; the 

 under surface whitish on the inner web, more or less mottled and 

 barred with brown ; sides of the face whitish, with narrow brown 

 shaft-streaks, the ear-coverts entirely brown on their upper margin ; 

 throat whitish, with brown shaft-stripes ; rest of under surface dull 

 rufous brown, inclining to buff on the vent and under tail-coverts, 

 all the breast-feathers paler and more fulvescent along each side of 

 the shaft, which is dark brown, producing a somewhat striped 

 appearance ; under wing-coverts rufous brown, with dark brown 

 centres to the feathers, the lower ones more ashy brown ; cere and 

 gape yellow ; bill black or blackish horny ; feet wax-yellow ; iris 

 yellowish brown. Total length 20 inches, culmen 1-8, wing 19-2, 

 tail 13, tarsus 2-3. 



Young. Brown like the adult, but mUch more mottled, all the 



* Soft parte from two Japanese birds living in the Rotterdam Q-ardens. 



t Mr. A. Anderson has described a new species {Milvus palustris) from N.W, 

 India. The paper arrived too late to allow of its insertion here, but it will bo 

 noticed in the ' Addenda.' 



