426 OX THE LATE COLONEL TICKELL'S [1876. 



of B. hphotes in first plumage appears to have been published; nor have I ever met with 

 examples. 



A mature female of L. Meneri, from Darjeeling, is well figured ; and the title alhogularis. 



Ibis, 1876, Tickell f J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 456), is admitted to be synonymous. Polioaetus icthijaetus, adult 



^' "' female and young bird, is well given, from Tenasserim examples, and is stated to be the 



commonest Eagle in Burma and Tenasserim; and two beautiful plates represent HaJia'etus 



fiihiieiifer, from Malda, and E. Jeucogaster, from Akyab. Among the drawings of the Hawks, 



A. tririrgatus $ juv. ex Singbhoom, M. badms $ ad. ex Tenasserim {poliopsis, Hume), A. nisus 



$ ad. from Darjeeling, and A. mrgatus, young of second year, from Hazaribagh, find a place. 



Falco nisoshnilis, Tickell (J. A. S. B. 1833, p. 571), is not alluded to, beyond being quoted as a 



synonym oi A. nisus, according to Jerdon. 



Eight difierent species of Falcons form the subjects of as many plates, the most interesting 

 being, perhaps, F. peregrinator, of which a mature female and a young example are figured on the 

 same plate. Colonel Tickell states that it is a commoner species in Burma than in India, and that 

 he had " frequently observed it on the sea-side at Amherst, where two or three pairs of these 

 birds breed every cold season, building on the high Gurjan oil-trees along the shore." The plate 

 of the common Indian Kite, 21. govinda, may be cited as one of the most charming and charac- 

 teristic in the volume. Butastur teesa, from a Tenasserim female, is figured on the same plate 

 with a Bengal male ; and the species is said to be more common in Burma than in Bengal. 



Falco herbcBCoJa, Tickell* (J. A. S. B. 1833, p. 570), is identified with Circus swainsoni $ , 

 a position assigned to it with doubt by Blyth (Cat. Calc. Mus. no. 90), and with certainty by 

 Jerdon (B. Ind. no. 51). 



The second volume contains twenty-one plates, on which nineteen species of Owls are 



depicted. A figure of a nestling example of Syrnium indranee, obtained in Tenasserim, leads ofi". 



The ochraceous colour of the disk is plainly indicated. Following a fair plate of Syrnium seloputo, 



from Tenasserim, is an admirable drawing of S. nivicolum, from Darjeeling, and then good 



figures of Bubo beitgalensis and coromandus, from Bengal. The next represents the type of 



Ibis, 1S76, Tickell's jjenus PtUosMos and species P. amherstii (J. A. S. B. 1859, p. 448), which Mr. Blyth, 



■ at the time, correctly identified with Iluhua orientalis juv. {t. c. p. 411, note). Kctiqm ceg- 



lonensis, with the title of Strix dumeticola, Tickell (J. A. S. B. 1833), admitted as a synonym, 



and K. javanensis, are both figured, the latter from a Tenasserim adult male. A plate is 



devoted to Scops pennatus under the title of Ephialtes scops, and another to the young bird ; and 



ScojJS sunia, fi-om Tirhoot, is described and figured as a distinct species. Athene radiata f , 



Tickell, is stated to be " met with throughout the forest portion and lower hills of Arakau, Burma, 



and Tenasserim ; " and of Ghtucidium hrodei Colonel Tickell remarks that while Darjeeling and 



Tenasserim birds do not differ in plumage, " nevertheless it is remarkable that the notes of the 



bird in these two countries difi'er considerably." 



Volume iii. treats on the Zyoodactyli, and contains forty-six plates. Of these, five belong 



* I cannot find any notice of this title in the British-SIusemn Catalogue, Accipitres (1874). 



t Tickell's specific denomination of radiata (J. A. S. B. 1833, p. 572) for this Owl was, by misprint, converted into 

 that of undulata by Blyth (J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 457). 



