on Dr. Jerdon^s 'Birds of India.' 239 



1841 (vol. iv. 213), this bird, under the name of Falco rufipes"^, 

 is asserted to be "the most common Hawk in Asia Minor, 

 building its nests under the roofs, and sometimes even in the 

 interior of houses/' In confinement this species and E. cenchris 

 do not thrive upon meat, but must be fed on a mixed diet, like 

 that commonly given to small insectivorous birds. Dr. Jerdon, 

 it will be observed, agrees with me in referring E. cenchris and 

 E. vespertinus to the same minimum division. I cannot help 

 thinking tliat all naturalists who are familiar with the living 

 birds must needs be of the same opinion. These two little white- 

 clawed Kestrelets only visit Lower Bengal during the rainy 

 season (so far as I have observed) ; and the same remark api)lies 

 to Baza lophotes. 



20. HiERAX EUTOLMUS. 



The common Malayan species of this genus, H. fringillarius, 

 'Dva\)iez{H.ma!ai/ensis, Strickland, and Falco carulescens, Vieillot, 

 Gal. des Ois. t. 18), is stated by Vieillot to be found " particu- 

 lierement en Bengale,'' where this genus happens to have no 

 representative ! An account of its habits (which of course 

 zxt generic) is given in the * Proceedings of the Zoological Society' 

 for 1863, p. 206. The notice in Captain Mundy's ' Sketches of 

 a Tour in India' (ii. p. 25), formerly quoted by me and since by 

 Mr. F. Moore (P. Z. S. 1854, p. 258), refers unquestionably to 

 Accipiter virgatus, and not to a Hierax, as indeed is remarked 

 by Dr. Jerdon. 



The Khandesra Hawk noticed by Dr. Jerdon (p. 54) is pro- 

 bably, as he suggests, Accipiter nisoides, nobis (J. A. S. B. 1845, 

 xvi. 727, xxi. 359; ex Sumatra A. fringillarius var., Vigors, 

 'Appendix to Memoir of Sir T. S. Raffles,' p. 549; and A. gu- 

 laris, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. Aves, 1850, t. 2). Professor 

 Schlegel mentions a specimen of his Nisus gularis from Nipal ! 

 Dr. Jerdon writes word that A. nisoides is not rare in the inte- 

 rior of the Himalaya; but two examples received from him, 

 possibly intended for this (though I can hardly comprehend his 



* [We cannot help thinking that in the passage quoted there 7nay have 

 been some confusion between this species and Tinnunculus cenchris. Confer 

 'Ibis,' 1860, pp. 880, 881.— Ed.] 



