342 Lord Waklcn on the late Colonel Tickell's 



p. 456)^ is admitted to be synonymous. Polioaetus icthya'etus, 

 adult, female and young bird^ is well given, from Tenasserim 

 examples, and is stated to be tlie eoramonest Eagle in Burma 

 and Tenasserim ; and two beautiful plates represent Haliaetus 

 fulviventer , from Malda, and H. leucogaster, from Akyab. 

 Among the drawings of the Hawks, A. trivirgatus ? juv. ex 

 Singbhoom, M. badius $ ad. ex Tenasserim {jwliopsis, Hume), 

 A. nisus ? ad. from Darjeeling, and A. virgatus, young of 

 second year, from Hazaribagh, find a place. Falconisosimilis, 

 Tickell (J. A. S. B. 1833, p. 571), is not alluded to, beyond 

 being quoted as a synonym of A. nisus, according to Jerdon, 



Eight different species of Falcons form the subjects of as 

 many plates, the most interesting being, perhaps, F. peregri- 

 nator, of which a mature female and a young example are 

 figured on the same plate. Colonel Tickell states that it is 

 a commoner species in Burma than in India, and that he 

 had " frequently observed it on the sea-side at Amherst, 

 where two or three pairs of these birds breed every cold 

 season, building on the high Gurjan oil-trees along the 

 shore.'" The plate of the common Indian Kite, M. govinda, 

 may be cited as one of the most charming and characteristic 

 in the volume. Butastur teesa, from a Tenasserim female, is 

 figured on the same plate with a Bengal male ; and the species 

 is said to be more common in Burma than in Bengal. 



Falco herhcecola, Tickell* (J. A. S. B. 1833, p. 570), is iden- 

 tified with Circus swainsoni $ , a position assigned to it with 

 doubt by Blyth (Cat. Calc. Mus. no. 90), and with certainty 

 by Jerdon (B. Ind. no. 51). 



The second volume contains twenty- one plates, on which 

 nineteen species of Owls are depicted. A figure of a nestling 

 example of Syrnium indi-anee, obtained in Tenasserim, leads 

 off". The ochraceous colour of the disk is plainly indicated. 

 Following a fair plate of Syrnium seloputo, from Tenasserim, 

 is an admirable drawing of S. nivicolum, from Darjeeling, 

 and then good figures of Bubo bengalensis and coromandus, 

 from Bengal. The next represents the type of TickelFs 



* I cannot find any notiofi of tliis title in the British-Museum Cata- 

 logue. Accipitres (1874). 



