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David from S.E. Chiua^ where it inhabits "the wooded 

 mountains which separate the provinces of Kiangsi and 

 Fokien," I have not seen specimens ; but judging by the de- 

 scription and plate in the ' Ois. de la Chine/ is doubtfully dis- 

 tinct from P. erythrocnemis , Gould, of Formosa^ from which it 

 appears to differ chiefly in the iris being pale yellow (2). ^ O.), 

 the lower breast and abdomen of an ashy grey, and the head 

 browner, more uniform with the colour of the back, which is 

 of a much brighter chestnut and by the black stripe on the 

 rami of the mandible being hardly traceable. These charac- 

 ters are nearly identical with those by which Swinhoe (/. c.) 

 differentiates the young of P. erythrocnemis, Gould. 

 - Iris pale yellow ; bill blackish brown with the base grey- 

 ish ; tarsi and toes brown ; claws grey, with brown tips [David 

 ^ Oustalet). 



XI. — Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British 

 Museum,' by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874) . By J. H. Gurney. 



[Continued from p. 102.] 



I THINK it desirable to mention a Malabar specimen of Spi- 

 lornis which has been acquired by the Norwich Museum 

 subsequently to the publication of my last paper, though 

 unfortunately I am not able to give its exact locality, neither 

 do I know the sex of the specimen. It is an adult bird in 

 fresh plumage, very little abraded, and most nearly resembles, 

 as it seems to me, the Bengal specimen presented by Captain 

 Pinwill to the British Museum [vide antea, p. 95), though 

 not quite so rufous on the underparts. The crop is much ver- 

 miculated ; and the chin is black with a slight slaty tinge, 

 and also with a tinge of brown next the throat. From the 

 district where this specimen was obtained, it is interesting to 

 observe that it is quite distinct from S. spilogaster of Ceylon, 

 both in the coloration of its underparts, and also in its mea- 

 surements, which are the following — wing 18*5 inches, tarsus 

 3" 7, middle toe s. u. 2. 



The genus Herpetotheres is the next to which I have to 



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