244 Mr. Blyth's Commentary 



speckled immature plumage as the Paria and Brahmiui Kites of 

 India. Pandion humilis, S. Miiller [Ichthyaetus nanus, Blyth), 

 is, I feel quite confident, erroneously assigned to Bengal by 

 Professor Schlegel (Mus. P.-B. Aquilce, p. 18). The specimen 

 which I described as Ichthyaetus nanus was from the Straits of 

 Malacca. Mr. P. Moore also gives a specimen from Bengal with 

 a note of doubt. Not improbably the range of P. humilis may 

 extend to Lower Siam and the southern Tenasserim provinces, 

 but I doubt if it reaches higher. 



42. Haliaetus leucoryphus ; Aquila leucorypha, Pallas ; 

 H. fulviventer, Vieillot ; H. macei, Cuvier. 



Professor Schlegel, I have no doubt correctly, identifies the 

 Indian bird with that described by Pallas. 



44. BUTEO VULGARIS. 



This certainly occurs in the North-western Himalaya, as near 

 Masuri, where several specimens were collected byDr.T. Stewart, 

 B.rufiventris (Jerdon), from the Nilgiris, and also Nipal, is 

 identified by Mr. Gurney (Ibis, 1862, p. 361) with " B. cirtensis 

 of Le Vaillant, jun., the northern representative of B. tachardus" 

 (as noticed in Jerdon's Appendix), which is referred to B. ta- 

 chardus by Dr. Bree. M. des Murs, however, has shown (Bev. 

 Zool. 1862, p. 49) that the '' Tachard " of Le Vaillant, and conse- 

 quently the B. tachardus of Daudin, is identical with Pernis api- 

 vorus, — an opinion in which Mr. Gurney coincides ( Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 361). At all events, Jerdon's name rufiventris takes prece- 

 dence of cirtensis *. 



45. BuTEO FEROX ; Falco ferox, Gmelin ; B. rufinus, Riippell ; 

 B. canescens, Hodgson ; B. leucurus, Naumann. 



46. BuTEO ASiATicus j Falco asiaticus, Latham ; Buteo 

 aquilinus and Butaquila leucocephala, Hodgson ; B. hemilasius, 

 Schlegel (Faun. Japon. Aves, tab. 7), as suggested by Mr. 

 G. B. Gray in his catalogue of Mr. Hodgson's specimens pre- 

 sented to the British Museum (1846). In his second edition of 



* [Mr. Gurney considers that there is no specific difference between 

 Buteo desertoriim (Daudin) from South Africa, B. cirtensis (Le Vaill., jun.) 

 from North Africa, and B. rufiventris (Jerdon) from India. If so, of course 

 Daudin's name has the priority. — Ed.] 



