MS. "Illustrations of Indian Ornithology." 341 



from a young male of L. albiniger, a species, in adult plumage, 

 by the way, which Colonel Tickell describes as a variety of 

 L. cristutelhis. Mr. Sharpe (Cat. Accipitres, p. 352) iden- 

 tifies F. lathaini, and without a doubt, with Baza lophotes. 

 There is something to be said in favour of this opinion, but 

 not enough to establish it. In favour, there is the fact that 

 Colonel Tickell again refers to F. lathami in his article on 

 Baza lophotes, a species, however, of which he was ignorant 

 in the adult plumage. As the young he describes, with a 

 note of interrogation, the bird he had obtained in 1833 in 

 Borabhoom, adding to the description the words " TickelFs 

 Falco lathami, 1833." And he goes on to observe, "The 

 above description is taken entirely from Jerdon ; for the adult 

 I have never seen, and the (by me supposed) young I lost 

 my notes and drawing of; but a slight description was sent 

 by me, in a ' List of Birds collected in the Jungle Mahals,' to 

 the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1833, of a 

 bird shot by me in Seheria, Manbhoom (West Bengal), which, 

 to the best of my recollection, closely resembles Baza lo- 

 photes in an immature plumage, and most certainly was not 

 a Limnu'etus, nor an Astur as suggested by Jerdon.'^ But 

 Colonel Tickell had no previous or subsequent certain know- 

 ledge of Baza lophotes in any phase of plumage ; and he there- 

 fore could not possibly judge whether the bird he referred to 

 F. lathami was the young of B. lophotes or not. In opposi- 

 tion to Mr. Sharpe's identification, we have these two incon- 

 venient facts : first, Tickell's bird measured 18 inches in 

 length, and in expanse 40 inches ; and, secondly, the legs 

 are described as being '^ clothed with short white feathers to 

 the feet, which are of a horny colour.^' The first character 

 tells, and the last Avould tell conclusively, against Colonel 

 TickelFs bird having belonged to B. lophotes, were it not for 

 the inconsistent sentence which follows — " exposed part of 

 the tarsi reticulated." No description of B. lophotes in first 

 plumage appears to have been published ; nor have I ever met 

 with examples. 



A mature female of L. kieneri, from Daijeeling, is well 

 figured; and the title albogvlaris, Tickell (J. A. S. B. 1842, 



