Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue 0/ Accipitres. 147 



specimens in tliat collection), and its appearance as a summer 

 visitant in Finland was recorded by Malmgren in '^The 

 Ibis' for 1870, p. 149. In Asia it has been obtained in 

 Siberia as far to the north-east as Krasnoyarsk, in the 

 valley of the Yenesay*; whilst further to the south the 

 most easterly locality for it with which I am acquainted is 

 North-western Turkestan, where it has been recorded by 

 Severtzoff as occurring " during passage " f. 



The southward autumnal migration of this species extends 

 in Eastern Africa to Sennaar, where it was observed by 

 HeuglinJ, and on the western side of the continent to a 

 much more southern latitude, as, according to Andersson, 

 "it usually arrives in Damara Land and Great Namaqua 

 Land about the rainy season, and again retires northward 

 upon the approach of the dry season ''§. 



I may here mention, in passing, that I have found 

 amongst Mr. Andersson's papers the following interesting 

 memorandum of measurements of this species, in inches and 

 Imes, taken by him (in all cases, I believe) from birds in the 

 flesh :— 



17 males 



5 females 



In 'The Ibis' for 1876, p. 132, Mr. Buckley records 

 having seen, in November, " an enormous qiiantity of 

 Hobbies, apparently of this species, at Holtfontein, in the 

 west of the Transvaal;" but as all the specimens of Eri/~ 

 thropus which I have seen from Transvaal are referable to 

 the eastern species, E. amurensis, and as Mr. Buckley does 



* n»is, 1880, p. 179. t Ibis, 1875, p. 109. 



X Ibis, 1861, p. 72, and Om. Nordost-Afr. vol. i. p. 39. 

 § ' Birds of Damara Land,' p. 15. Mr. Andersson considered that the 

 " rainy season " in Damara Land commences towards the end of October, 



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