Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue 0/ Accipitres. 361 



Mr. Blanford was so good as to show me a female Hawk, 

 killed by him in Baluchistan, which bore so great a resem- 

 blance to S. badius as perhaps not to be separable from that 

 species, but in which the tarsus measured 2"3 inches, and 

 the middle toe s. u. 1"4; I have unfortunately no memo- 

 randum of the length of the wing in this specimen. 



Mr. Sharpe, in speaking of the succeeding race, S.poliopsis, 

 states that it is a " much paler blue above " than S. badius ; 

 but in the specimens which I have examined this is certainly 

 not the case. 



Two adult males from Siam, of which the measurements 

 are annexed, are fully as dark on the upper parts as ordinary 

 males of S. badius ; and the adult male from Ceylon, of which 

 I have also given the dimensions below, is decidedly darker 

 in the hue of the slate-colour in the upper parts than either 

 the two Siam males or the ordinary Indian form ; I have, 

 however, considered all these as examples of S. poliopsis, on 

 account of the dark vinous hue of the bars on the under sur- 

 face, this character being possessed by all the three examples. 



The following are the measurements of S. poliopsis above 

 referred to : — 



Wing from Middle 



carpal joint. Tarsus. toe, s. u. 



in. in. in. 



From Ceylon. Presumed J 7-5 1'8 I'l 



Two from Siam. Both presumed (S . . 7'7 2 1-1 



From Siam. Presumed $ • 9 2'1 1'2 



I propose to conclude this series of measurements by those 

 of four specimens of S. breviceps, all obtained in Syria. 



Wing from Middle 



carpal joint. Tarsus. toe, s. u. 



in. in. in. 



Presumed S 8-5 1-8 1 



Presumed J 8-7 1-9 1-1 



Presumed S 8-8 1-9 1 



Presumed $ 9-5 2 1-1 



Proceeding to the second division of the subgenus Scelo- 

 spizias, I may remark, with reference to S. tachiro, that I be- 

 lieve the measurements given by Mr. Sharpe as those of the 



