Mr. R. B. Sharpens Catalogue of Accipitres. 93 



I have already alluded to the circumstance of Mr. Swinhoe 

 having met, in the island of Hainan, with a Spilornis consi- 

 derably smaller than that which he had found at Amoy. In 

 'The Ibis' for 1870 that gentleman proposed the specific 

 name of rutherfordi for the Spilornis of Hainan ; and at p. 86 

 he gave the dimensions of five specimens which he obtained 

 in that island, but without recording their sexes. In these 

 examples the measurement of the wing, as given by Mr. 

 Swinhoe, range from 16*25 to 17 inches*, that of the 

 tarsus from 3*75 to 4*25, and of the middle toe s. u. from 1-9 

 to 2-3. 



Mr. Swinhoe also quoted, for comparison, the dimensions 

 of a Spilornis from Pachebouri, Siam, Avhich is preserved in 

 the Norwich Museum : on recently remeasuring this example, 

 I made its wing 18*1^ the tarsus 3*6, and the middle toe s. u. 

 1'9, these dimensions being a little different from those given 

 by Mr. Swinhoe as the result of a former measurement which 

 we jointly made of this specimen. 



Examples of somewhat similar size occur in Burmah ; the 

 following measurements were taken by myself from Burmese 

 specimens in the collection of the Marquis of Tweeddale : — 



Wing. Tarsus. Middle toe s. u. 

 in. in. in. 

 cJ , Kyouk Kyee, British Bur- 

 mah 17-1 3-5 2-1 



J , Mong, British Burmah . . 17-8 4 1-9 



d,Tonghoo 17 3-5 1-9 



$ , Tonghoo (immature) . . 17-7 3-8 2-2 

 {The sexes of the foHoicing 

 are unrecorded.) 



Tonghoo 17-3 2-1 



Rangoon : , 17 3-6 2 



„ (immature) 10-5 4 2 



Thayetmyo 186 3-9 2-2 



* Mr. Sharpe, however, at p. 289 of his volume, quotes the measure- 

 ment of the wing in one of these specimens, an adult, now preserved in 

 the British Museum, as 17"8. It may be well to mention that, of the 

 remaining four specimens, one adult is in the Nor^ndch Museum, another 

 in the possession of Canon Tristram, whilst the remaining adult and the 

 immature bird were retained by Mr. Swinhoe in his own collection. 



