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Page 79, No. 107. Read: — Demiegretta sacra s*' era (Gm.). 

 Dt>. do., line 2 oi' syiionomy. ^*''>/' I. riuid : — A. 



]>(». For Nycticorax nycticorax ii-ad : — Nycticorax nycticorax 



nycticorax (Linn.). 

 Do. No. 108. Insrrt as first item in the synonomy : — 



Ardea melanolopha, Haffles, Tians. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1822, p. 326 

 (Sumati'ji). 



Page 80, No. 109. Read : — Butorides striatus javanicus (Hoi^sf.). 



Do. No. 112. Read : — Biibulcus ibis coromandus (Bodd.). 

 Page 81, No. 113. Read: — Ardetta sinensis sinensis (Onv I 

 Page 85, For Plotus melanogaster read : — Plotus rufus melano- 

 gaster (Penn.). 

 1^0. No. 124. Read: — Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.;. 



Tickell's name CarJ>o (tlhiventer is preoccupied and the 

 Siamese bird is probabl}^ P. c. sinennw (Pelccannst t^incnsis 

 Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc. xiii, 1801, pi. 529 and text. 

 China), with which, according to Ticehnrst (Ibis, 1928, p. 458) 

 P. e. indicus Mathews is synonymous. 

 Page 86. For Pelecanus roseus read : — Pelecanus onocrotalus 



roseus Gm. 

 Page 89, bracket 0. Read: — Gercltn/'ln tiniumcuhifi. 

 Page 90, bracket 17. Insert no before scutellae. 



Do. bracket 18. For i in both lines read : — l.J 

 Page 91, No. 128. Read: — Baza leuphotes (Dumont). 



Falco leuphotes, Dumont, Diet. 8ci. Nat. xvii. 1820, p. 217 

 (Pondicherry). 



On further consideration of our series of fourteen speci- 

 mens, southwards from the Isthmus of Kra in the Malay 

 Peninsula, we find ourselves in agreement with Swann's view 

 as to B. I. burmana being only a synonym of B. leujihotes 

 (Syn. Accipitres, ed. 2, 1922, p. 167). Only two of our speci- 

 mens have chestnut on the scapulars and these also have 

 chestnut breast-bands, the individual having most chestnut 

 on the scapulars having the brightest chestnut breast and 

 being of small size. The remaining twelve have scapulars 

 black and white : two of them have pure black breast-bands ; 



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