92 Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes 07i 



Wing. Tarsus. Middle toe s. u. 



in. in. in. 



Murshedabad* 16-6 3'5 1-8 



Mussoorie, c? 19-6 4-1 2-3 



Mirzapore, S 18"'5 4 1-9 



South of Godavery, near Bha- 



dracliallam, c? IS'l 3-6 2 



Ibideni, $ 18-8 3-8 2-2 



Godavery valley, $ 18 3-9 2 



Madi-as 18-4 3-7 2-2 



„ 18-5 3-6 2 



I may add that the birds which I have been kindly per- 

 mitted to examine, and which are included in the above list, 

 are contained in the British, Norwich, and Liverpool Mu- 

 seums, and in the collections of the Marquis ot" Tweeddale 

 and of Canon Tristram ; the list also includes a few speci- 

 mens in the possession of Mr. Burton, bird-stufFer, of War- 

 dour Street, London. 



The following measurements of Indian specimens are given 

 by Mr. Humef- 



Wing. Tarsus. 



North-west Himalayas 18 4 



Saharunpoor district, c? 19'245 



„ „ 6 19-5 



c? 20-25 



? ^1 



Sirgiija, d 18-4 4-2 



Bugola, near Calcutta 16'4 3"5 



Travancore hills, c? adult 17 3'75 



Ibidem, ^ young, just beginning to 



pass into adult plumage 15"75 3*87 



The late Dr. Jerdon gave the following measurements of 

 the type of his Buteo {Spilornis) me/awo^i*, which ''was killed 

 at the foot of the Neilgherries,^^ the sex not being recorded : — 

 wing 16, tarsus 3*8, middle toe s.u. TZJ. 



* Mr. Sharpe, who refers, under the head of S. melanotis, to this spe- 

 cimen, which was collected by Col. Cobbe, and is preserved in the British 

 Museum, makes the measurement of the wing 1G*8, and that of the tarsus 

 3-65. 



t Vide ' Rough Notes,' p. 226 ; also ' Stray Feathers,' for 1874, p. 380, 

 and for 1870, p. 358. 



J Vide 'Madras Journal,' vol. xiii, p. 107. 



