448 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Birds from Hakodadi. 



letter of notes on the ornithology of that locality. Any 

 species now received for the first time I record with num- 

 bers following consecutively those of my paper in ' The Ibis ' 

 for April 1874. The last number therein given was 68. 



69. Falco subbuteo^ L. 



Blakiston notes the length of fresh birds : — Sept. ? ($ , length 

 llf inches, wing 10| ; and Sept. ^ , length Vl\, wing 10^. He 

 says, '^ an August male differs in having unspotted chestnut 

 thighs, and more slate-colour on back; and seems to agree with 

 F. rufipes of Yarrell." This will probably be F. amurensis, 

 Radde. Blakiston also has the skins of what he takes to be 

 Accipiter nisus. One has five bars on the tail-feathers, except 

 outer ones, which have six ; and one has four bars, and seven 

 bars on the outer ones. He has seen a specimen of Bubo 

 maximus killed. He has sent a male Hen-Harrier and two 

 small Owls. The Harrier has some dark lines on the sides of 

 its body ; but Mr. R. B. Sharpe considers it of the European 

 type, and not of the American j so I add it as 



70. Circus cyaneus, L. 



71. Scops stictonotus, Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 54, t. iii. f. 1. 

 A September female. Blakiston has two other females, 



shot in the same month, and says that they all agree with his 

 Canton specimens. The bird sent agrees with mine from 

 China. Mr. Sharpe considers my larger Owl, mentioned in 

 ' The Ibis' 1874, p. 434, to be the true S.japonicus, T. & S. 



72. Scops SEMiTORQUES (T. & S.). 



The male bird received seems very small. Blakiston gives 

 the length when fresh -killed as 8|, wing 6|. He writes that 

 he has also a male of Otus brachyotus, procured at Hakodadi, 

 ■which agrees with his Canton specimen. He has also got 

 one skin of Caprimulgus jotaka. 



73. CuiETURA CAUDACUTA (Lath.). 



Two males, one of September, the other of August, and a 

 female of August. Blakiston gives their measurements at 7g 

 to 8, and that of their wings from 7| to 8j. 



Chelidon blakistoni. No. 3 of former list. 



Two males and one female sent this time, all procured in 



