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three fourths of the tarsus are feathered in front ; the two 

 outer tail-feathers on each side are tipped with white^ more 

 broadly in the male ; and both sexes have white spots on the 

 first three primaries. Now C. mahrattensis is distinguished 

 by precisely these characters, except that the tarsus is only 

 about half concealed by feathers in the specimens I have ex- 

 amined. I should add that Lord Tweeddale first pointed out 

 to me the close agreement between the description of C. un- 

 wini and the characters of C. mahrattensis. 



When I told Mr. Hume of the conclusion at -which I had 

 arrived, he assured me I was mistaken, and placed the whole 

 of his specimens at my disposal for examination. He at the 

 same time said that his only doubt was whether C unwini 

 might not prove to be a variety of C. europaus. At the time 

 he described the former, his only specimen of C. eurojjaeus was 

 a large English female. A male specimen, from Europe, but 

 without precise locality, has since been added to his collec- 

 tion ; and I find that this agrees well with the types of C, 

 ujuvini. 



The conclusion at which I have arrived, after examining all 

 the specimens, is, that the sex of one of the types of C. unwini 

 was probably w^rongly determined, and that, instead of being 

 male and female, both skins are those of males, that they are 

 quite distinct from C. mahrattensis, but that they belong to the 

 pale-grey race of C. europcEus, of which I obtained specimens 

 in South-eastern Persia, and that, whilst the name of C un- 

 wini must become a synonym, C. europceus must be added to 

 the Indian fauna. Besides the two original types from the 

 Agror valley, in Hazara, in the extreme north of the Punjab, 

 Mr. Hume has since obtained a female without any white on 

 the tail from Mari (the sanitarium somewhat further east) ; 

 and he is inclined to refer to the same species two other 

 females, one from Sirsa, in the Punjab, the other from Etawah, 

 in the north-west provinces. These latter, however, are 

 doubtfully identified, being smaller in all their dimensions ; 

 one of them is certainly immature. It Avill be curious if 

 this proves to be a resideiit race, and not migratory, like the 

 western form. , 



